Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Penn, William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Low, Albert

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Epictetus

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

Truman, Harry S

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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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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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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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.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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 I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

41.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

W. Somerset Maugham