Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Truth

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Sontag, Susan

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Low, Albert

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Aristotle

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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