Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

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

Malcolm X

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Confucius

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

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