Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hare, J. C.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Blake, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

13.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Luther, Martin

21.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Blake, William

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.