Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Richards, R. Scott

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.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Low, Albert

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Confucius

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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 true belongs to me!

Seneca