Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Wilder, Billy

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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 is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.