Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

- Richards, R. Scott

Best Quotes about Truth

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Churchill, Winston

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Carrel, Alexis

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

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

Luther, Martin

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Butler, Samuel

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hesse, Hermann

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Hemingway, Ernest

25.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Low, Albert

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.