Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Norris, Frank

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lincoln, Abraham

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Gide, Andre

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Camus, Albert

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blake, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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