Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Thatcher, Margaret

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Twain, Mark

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carrel, Alexis

20.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

21.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

25.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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 true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.