Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Hill, Napoleon

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sontag, Susan

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Lennon, John

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.