Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Strachey, Lionel

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Butler, Samuel

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

10.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

11.

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

12.

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Augustine, St.

14.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

15.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

18.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

19.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

23.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

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

25.

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

Herbert Agar

27.

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

Penn, William

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

29.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

30.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

32.

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

Mark Twain

33.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

34.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

35.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

36.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Diderot, Denis

41.

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

William Shakespeare

42.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

43.

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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

45.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Middleton, Owen C.

47.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Barnes, Leonard