Motivational Quotes

Truth

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Truth

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lennon, John

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

11.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Bible

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

24.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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