Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Valery, Paul

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Malcolm X

20.

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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

28.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

32.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

35.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

41.

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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

46.

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

47.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi