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

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Pancoast, Mal

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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