Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Truman, Harry S

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Aristotle

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Aristotle

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

39.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

41.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark