Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gordimer, Nadine

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

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

Malcolm X

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

12.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

13.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Low, Albert

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Pindar

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Epictetus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Voltaire

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von