Motivational Quotes

Truth

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Low, Albert

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Confucius

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Aristotle

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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.