Motivational Quotes

Truth

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Malcolm X

2.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

3.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

4.

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

5.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

6.

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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

9.

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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

Locke, John

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

13.

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

14.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

15.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

16.

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

Penn, William

17.

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.

18.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

19.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

20.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

21.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

22.

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

Kahlil Gibran

23.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

25.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

26.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

27.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

28.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

29.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

30.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

32.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

33.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

34.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

36.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

37.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

38.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Brandes, George

42.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

43.

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

44.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

45.

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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.