Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bach, Richard

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Cronkite, Walter

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Wilder, Billy

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von