Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Confucius

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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.

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

Seabury, David

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

William Shakespeare

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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

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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

18.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

21.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Clarence Darrow

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

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

Tomlin, Lily

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Carrel, Alexis

41.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Hesiod

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow