Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Carrel, Alexis

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Truman, Harry S

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Pindar

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Baldwin, James

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Seabury, David

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Aristotle

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Max

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.