Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tomlin, Lily

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Aristotle

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

11.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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.

14.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Hare, J. C.

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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 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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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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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 first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William