Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tomlin, Lily

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

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

10.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

11.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

12.

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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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)

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

Edith Sitwell

16.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

18.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

25.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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

27.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Rogers, Will

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

31.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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

Bible

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

34.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Confucius

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

40.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Berlin, Irving

44.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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.