Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Barnes, Leonard

Best Quotes about Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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 is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Augustine, St.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Bible

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Aristotle

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Confucius

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Birmingham, Wayne