Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Twain, Mark

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Aristotle

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, 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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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

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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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.

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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