Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Mamet, David

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

Bach, Richard

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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Kahlil Gibran

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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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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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Aristotle

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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