Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Adler, Alfred

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Epictetus

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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 truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Benjamin, Walter

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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 solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Aristotle

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

Low, Albert

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Baldwin, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Confucius

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Blake, William

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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

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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.