Motivational Quotes

Truth

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Edith Sitwell

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

William Shakespeare

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

11.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Aristotle

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Blake, William

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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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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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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Barnes, Leonard

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

Kersha, Al

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

Zola, Emile

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal