Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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)

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Pindar

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Blake, William

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Sontag, Susan

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Aristotle

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo