Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hare, J. C.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Churchill, Winston

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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 you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Blake, William

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Walters, Hellmut

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Richards, R. Scott

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Malcolm X

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Herbert, Frank

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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