Motivational Quotes

Truth

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Truth

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

11.

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

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Aristotle

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Twain, Mark

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce