Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Confucius

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

Kersha, Al

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 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 always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rostand, Jean

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark