Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Voltaire

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

Clarence Darrow

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Berenson, Bernard