Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Barnes, Leonard

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Churchill, Winston

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Bible

10.

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Granville, Joseph E.

13.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

27.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

28.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Aristotle

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

Malcolm X

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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