Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Truth

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

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

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

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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

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Voltaire

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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