Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Mamet, David

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

Camus, Albert

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Renard, Jules

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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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

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Berenson, Bernard

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Rogers, Will

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Blake, William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.