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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Augustine, St.

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

Zola, Emile

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Gide, Andre

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Dickens, Charles

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Twain, Mark

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart