Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

- Abraham Lincoln

Best Quotes about Truth

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Mamet, David

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Augustine, St.

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

Walters, Hellmut

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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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 basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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 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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles