Motivational Quotes

Truth

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

- Anderson, Sherwood

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Bach, Richard

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Churchill, Winston

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Aristotle

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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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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.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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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

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.