Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

William Shakespeare

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bach, Richard