Motivational Quotes

Truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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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 trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bach, Richard

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

Pascal, Blaise

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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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

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Aristotle

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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

33.

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

Truman, Harry S

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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