Motivational Quotes

Truth

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lewis, C. S.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.