Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Twain, Mark

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Emre, Yumus

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

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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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

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

Galileo Galilei

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Barnes, Leonard

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Davies, Robertson

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...