Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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

Strachey, Lionel

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Voltaire

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Augustine, St.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Brandes, George

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Low, Albert

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Aristotle

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.