Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hesiod

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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 rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent