Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Herbert, Frank

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

10.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

11.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

12.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Camus, Albert

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bible

31.

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

Twain, Mark

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

34.

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

Low, Albert

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kersha, Al

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.