Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Boerhaave, Herman

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mamet, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Twain, Mark

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Fuller, Thomas

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Howard, Vernon

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert