Motivational Quotes

Truth

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

- Walters, Hellmut

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Mark Twain

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Howard, Vernon

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Clarence Darrow

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Baldwin, James

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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 is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Kersha, Al

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.