Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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

11.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Malcolm X

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Baldwin, James

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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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

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Edith Sitwell

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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