Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Russell, Utterly

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Galileo Galilei

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hemingway, Ernest