Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Russell, Utterly

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

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

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 is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Herbert, Frank

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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.

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark