Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Truth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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 is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Low, Albert

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

Lennon, John

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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