Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Norris, Frank

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Renard, Jules

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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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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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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Twain, Mark

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Kersha, Al

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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