Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Emre, Yumus

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Seabury, David

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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