Motivational Quotes

Truth

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Truth

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Aristotle

3.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

4.

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

West, Jessamyn

5.

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

Renard, Jules

6.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

7.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Farnham, Eliza

9.

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

Lewis, C. S.

10.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

11.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

12.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

13.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

14.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

16.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

17.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

18.

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

Barnes, Leonard

19.

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

20.

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

21.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

22.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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

24.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Truman, Harry S

29.

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

Bible

30.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

31.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

32.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

33.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

34.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

35.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

36.

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

Richards, R. Scott

37.

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

Baldwin, James

38.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

39.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

40.

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

Emre, Yumus

41.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

42.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

43.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

44.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

45.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

46.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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

48.

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

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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