Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

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

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Churchill, Winston

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Blake, William

10.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

11.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

14.

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

Edith Sitwell

15.

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

Bible

16.

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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

19.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Luther, Martin

22.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

23.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

24.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

25.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

28.

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

Rostand, Jean

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

32.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

34.

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

Norris, Frank

35.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

36.

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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

39.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

43.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

46.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

47.

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

48.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow