Motivational Quotes

Truth

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Churchill, Winston

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Einstein, Albert

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Fuller, Max

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Blake, William

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Low, Albert

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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

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Confucius

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

Zola, Emile

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

Voltaire

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.