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

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

Strachey, Lionel

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Camus, Albert

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Blake, William

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.