• A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 61 reads

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• A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 28 reads

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• A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

  

  Greek proverb

  Greek

  3.5 · 22 votes · 150 reads

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 107 reads

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

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 129 reads

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 110 reads

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• All necessary truth is its own evidence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 74 reads

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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.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 102 reads

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

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 166 reads

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• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 6 reads

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• Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 59 votes · 69 reads

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• Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 186 reads

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• Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 46 votes · 78 reads

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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.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 56 reads

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

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 183 reads

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• Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 84 reads

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• Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 9 votes · 82 reads

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

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 82 reads

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• Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 167 reads

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• Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 74 reads

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• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 32 reads

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• For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 43 reads

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

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 174 reads

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 38 reads

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• From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 18 votes · 74 reads

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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 denu

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 161 reads

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• Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 57 votes · 56 reads

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• Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 167 reads

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• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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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.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 177 reads

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• I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 46 votes · 97 reads

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• I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 110 reads

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• I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 22 reads

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• I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 0 reads

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• I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 65 reads

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• I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 100 reads

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

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 6 reads

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 130 reads

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 115 reads

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

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 96 reads

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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.

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  Émile Zola

  NovelistFrench1840 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 144 reads

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 58 reads

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• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 141 reads

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.4 · 47 votes · 187 reads

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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

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 80 reads

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• Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.9 · 35 votes · 21 reads

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.9 · 47 votes · 195 reads

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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.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 180 reads

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• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 161 reads

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• It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  5.0 · 56 votes · 75 reads

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• It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• It is not truth that matters, but victory.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 197 reads

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• It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 152 reads

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• It is the truth that irritates a person.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 129 reads

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• It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 101 reads

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• It's become my brand in a way, you know, speaking the truth even though it was not politically correct.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 40 reads

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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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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 12 votes · 124 reads

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 1 reads

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

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 123 reads

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• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 158 reads

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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.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 101 reads

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 188 reads

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• Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 199 reads

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

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 117 reads

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

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 82 reads

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• No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 17 votes · 14 reads

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• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 51 reads

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

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.4 · 20 votes · 22 reads

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• 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.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 45 reads

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• Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 64 votes · 79 reads

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• Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 42 reads

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

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 139 reads

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• Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 58 votes · 5 reads

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• One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 129 reads

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

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 37 reads

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 121 reads

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• Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 183 reads

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• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 72 reads

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• Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 47 reads

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