Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hamilton, Sir William

16.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Howard, Vernon

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth does not contradict truth.