Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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 fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

11.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Twain, Mark

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Low, Albert

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.