Motivational Quotes

Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Granville, Joseph E.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Augustine, St.

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

Baldwin, James

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Low, Albert

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

West, Jessamyn

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Hare, J. C.

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam