Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Voltaire

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

Low, Albert

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Baldwin, James

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hesse, Hermann

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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

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

Malcolm X

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Blake, William

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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