Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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 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

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

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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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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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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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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