Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Low, Albert

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

William Shakespeare

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

Malcolm X

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

25.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

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

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Max

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert