Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bible

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

Bach, Richard

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

10.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

11.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

12.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Hesiod

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

19.

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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

21.

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

Blake, William

22.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

23.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

27.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

28.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

31.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

32.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

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

34.

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

Davies, Robertson

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

47.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

48.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Scott Westerfeld