Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Truth

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Aristotle

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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 most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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

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

Low, Albert

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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 is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John