Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Twain, Mark

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Truman, Harry S

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Fuller, Thomas

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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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

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Voltaire

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

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Aristotle

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Blake, William

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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