Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Merzel, David

10.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

11.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

12.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

13.

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

14.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

15.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

16.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Tomlin, Lily

18.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

20.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

23.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

24.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

26.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

27.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

28.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

29.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

30.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

33.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

34.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

41.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

42.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily