Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Smith, Joseph F.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

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

Norris, Frank

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Cronkite, Walter

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Low, Albert

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig