Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Stone, W. Clement

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.

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

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

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Baldwin, James

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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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)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Kersha, Al

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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.