Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Baldwin, James

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Bible

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Twain, Mark

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Blake, William

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

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

Aristotle

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

Seabury, David

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.