Motivational Quotes

Truth

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

- Bach, Dr. Marcus

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

2.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

3.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

7.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

8.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Valery, Paul

10.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

15.

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

Blake, William

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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

18.

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

Clarence Darrow

19.

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

Bach, Richard

20.

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

Malcolm X

21.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

22.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

23.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

29.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

30.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

31.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

32.

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.

33.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

34.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

35.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

38.

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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

40.

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

Cronkite, Walter

41.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

42.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

43.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

44.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

45.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

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

47.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

50.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus