Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Valery, Paul

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

Galileo Galilei

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hesse, Hermann

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Clarence Darrow

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Low, Albert

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