Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Whately, Richard

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

William Shakespeare

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Farnham, Eliza

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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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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Malcolm X

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

Hesiod

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

Low, Albert

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

Blake, William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Blake, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Penn, William