Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Galileo Galilei

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Bach, Richard

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

Baldwin, James

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier