Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

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

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Aristotle

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Whately, Richard

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth does not contradict truth.