Motivational Quotes

Truth

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

- Hall, Calvin S.

Best Quotes about Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Zola, Emile

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Low, Albert

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

Twain, Mark

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mamet, David

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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

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

Aristotle

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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.

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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 reality.