Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Low, Albert

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

Zola, Emile

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

Twain, Mark

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Luther, Martin

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

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.