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

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Mann, Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Sontag, Susan

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kersha, Al

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Luther, Martin

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hare, J. C.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Confucius

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.