Motivational Quotes

Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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 so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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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

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rogers, Will

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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