Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Churchill, Winston

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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 criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Kersha, Al

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Bible

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Malcolm X

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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