Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Butler, Samuel

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Twain, Mark

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Gide, Andre

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Galileo Galilei

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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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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 lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma