Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

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

Bible

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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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

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell