Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Russell, Utterly

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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

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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

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Lennon, John

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

Davies, Robertson

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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

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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