Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Mann, Horace

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.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Halifax, Edward F.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

11.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

12.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

13.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

14.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

16.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

17.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

19.

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

Kahlil Gibran

20.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

25.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

26.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

27.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

30.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

31.

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

32.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

33.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

36.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

38.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

39.

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 easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

43.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

44.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

45.

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

Mamet, David

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert