Motivational Quotes

Truth

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Bible

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

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

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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 is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Fuller, Max

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

Luther, Martin

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

Brandes, George

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Zola, Emile

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Joubert, Joseph

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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