Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lennon, John

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Blake, William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Low, Albert

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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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 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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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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