Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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)

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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 truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Epictetus

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

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

Lennon, John

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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 truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo