Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

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

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.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

William Shakespeare

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Zola, Emile

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Low, Albert

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Aristotle

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Epictetus

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

Lennon, John

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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