Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Bible

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark