Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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

Kersha, Al

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Camus, Albert

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Blake, William

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lee, Bruce

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Blake, William

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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