Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Brandes, George

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Mamet, David

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aristotle

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Richards, R. Scott

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Blake, William

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Bible

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Camus, Albert

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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