Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Low, Albert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bach, Richard

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

19.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

20.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Voltaire

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Stone, W. Clement

28.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.