Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

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

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Valery, Paul

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Blake, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Baldwin, James

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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 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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Camus, Albert