Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hamilton, Sir William

Best Quotes about Truth

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Merzel, David

10.

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

11.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

13.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

15.

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

Berenson, Bernard

16.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Low, Albert

21.

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

Edith Sitwell

22.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

28.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

29.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Malcolm X

37.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

38.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

40.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

42.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Hare, J. C.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.