Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Truman, Harry S

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Low, Albert

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Epictetus

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Dickinson, Emily

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

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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 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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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

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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 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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo