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

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

Butler, Samuel

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Aristotle

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Stone, W. Clement

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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.