Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Boerhaave, Herman

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

17.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

21.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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 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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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Twain, Mark

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lennon, John

35.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

43.

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Rosten, Leo

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Barnes, Leonard