Motivational Quotes

Truth

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Barnes, Leonard

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Mamet, David

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

Aristotle

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Blake, William

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

26.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Stone, W. Clement

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

30.

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

Aristotle

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.