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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Mamet, David

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Fuller, Max

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kersha, Al

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Low, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Mark Twain

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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.