Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Galileo Galilei

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Rogers, Will

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Emre, Yumus

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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

Aristotle

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bible

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Penn, William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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.