Motivational Quotes

Truth

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott