Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Mamet, David

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

Fuller, Thomas

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aristotle

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

28.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bible

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

Hesse, Hermann

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma