Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Baldwin, James

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Low, Albert

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Aristotle

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Clarence Darrow

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Richards, R. Scott

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel