Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Smith, Joseph F.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Herbert Agar

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

Richards, R. Scott

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

Twain, Mark

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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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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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

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Truman, Harry S

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah