Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Galileo Galilei

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Zola, Emile

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.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Low, Albert

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 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

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir 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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Lennon, John

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mamet, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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