Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Pascal, Blaise

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Zola, Emile

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

Hare, J. C.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Blake, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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