Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Fuller, Thomas

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butler, Samuel

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Mamet, David

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

18.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

19.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

20.

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

Valery, Paul

21.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

26.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Middleton, Owen C.

28.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

33.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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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

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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 always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich