Motivational Quotes

Truth

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Hesiod

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lowell, James Russell

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Aristotle

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

14.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lewis, C. S.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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 lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Bible

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Seabury, David

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Penn, William

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Truman, Harry S

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John