Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mamet, David

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

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

Zola, Emile

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

Lee, Bruce

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Malcolm X

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Blake, William

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo