Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rogers, Will

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

William Shakespeare

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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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

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Low, Albert

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Confucius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Lennon, John

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

Scott Westerfeld

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert