Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Pilgrim, Peace

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Twain, Mark

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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

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

Edith Sitwell

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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