Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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)

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thatcher, Margaret

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

10.

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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Lennon, John

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Pindar

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Aristotle

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Twain, Mark

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

West, Jessamyn

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert