Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Kahlil Gibran

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Blake, William

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

Valery, Paul

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter