Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

10.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

11.

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 something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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 truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Low, Albert

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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Truth is reality.