Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

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

Einstein, Albert

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Mamet, David

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Herbert, Frank

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Low, Albert

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Whately, Richard

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire