Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kahlil Gibran

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

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

10.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

11.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

12.

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

Scott Westerfeld

13.

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

Blake, William

14.

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

Zola, Emile

15.

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

Truman, Harry S

16.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

17.

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)

18.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

Mamet, David

20.

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

Berlin, Irving

21.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

22.

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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

24.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

25.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

26.

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

Hill, Napoleon

27.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

28.

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

29.

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

Cronkite, Walter

30.

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.

31.

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

Strachey, Lionel

32.

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

Bach, Richard

33.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

34.

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

Rostand, Jean

35.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

37.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

43.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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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

47.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.