Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Galileo Galilei

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

11.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Blake, William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Halifax, Edward F.