Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rostand, Jean

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

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Dickens, Charles

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kersha, Al

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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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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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.