Motivational Quotes

Truth

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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)

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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.

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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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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Scott Westerfeld

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Blake, William

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.