Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

- Berlin, Irving

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Galileo Galilei

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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hare, J. C.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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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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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Tomlin, Lily