Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hare, J. C.

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

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

Penn, William

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

Valery, Paul

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

12.

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.

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

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

Blake, William

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Brandes, George

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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

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

28.

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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Twain, Mark

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

West, Jessamyn

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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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

40.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

41.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.