Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Bible

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Camus, Albert

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich