Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Thomas

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Renard, Jules

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Bible

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Whately, Richard

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

Mamet, David

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Aristotle

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Kersha, Al

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Twain, Mark

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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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