Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Low, Albert

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

Fuller, Max

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Scott Westerfeld

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Luther, Martin

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

Aristotle

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.