Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

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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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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Penn, William

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Luther, Martin

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bible

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

Gide, Andre

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous