Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Baldwin, James

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Low, Albert

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Malcolm X

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Strachey, Lionel

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Gide, Andre

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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