Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Darrow, Clarence

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

12.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Bible

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Penn, William

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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

43.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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 lived, not taught.