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

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Low, Albert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Stone, W. Clement

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Pancoast, Mal

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Rogers, Will

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

Aristotle

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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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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Davies, Robertson

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Blake, William

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Aristotle

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore