Motivational Quotes

Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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 pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Voltaire

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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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Blake, William

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Bach, Richard

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Low, Albert

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Berlin, Irving