Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Rostand, Jean

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Low, Albert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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