Motivational Quotes

Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Bible

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Confucius

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

Luther, Martin

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Einstein, Albert

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Jerrold, Douglas 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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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