Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Strachey, Lionel

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Low, Albert

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Confucius

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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'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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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 truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.