Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Lennon, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Confucius

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Rogers, Will

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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 man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Gide, Andre

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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.