Motivational Quotes

Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

- Edith Sitwell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Twain, Mark

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pascal, Blaise

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Augustine, St.

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Malcolm X

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

Aristotle

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Gide, Andre

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Goldwyn, Samuel