Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Twain, Mark

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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 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

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Zola, Emile

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Truman, Harry S

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.