Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

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

Malcolm X

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Aristotle

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

Penn, William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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 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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Davies, Robertson

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Bible