Motivational Quotes

Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

- Prentice, George D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Granville, Joseph E.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Edith Sitwell

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gide, Andre

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Lennon, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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

32.

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

Truman, Harry S

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Penn, William

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.