Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Kersha, Al

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Kahlil Gibran

10.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

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

Walters, Hellmut

12.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

17.

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

Fuller, Thomas

18.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

19.

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

Richards, R. Scott

20.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

21.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

22.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

23.

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

24.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

25.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

26.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

28.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

29.

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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

33.

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

Penn, William

34.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

35.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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

40.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

45.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Low, Albert

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

49.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig