Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

11.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

14.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Blake, William

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

18.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

19.

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

20.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

25.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

27.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

28.

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

Penn, William

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Wilder, Billy

37.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell