Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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.

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

Baldwin, James

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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

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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

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

Mann, Horace

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rosten, Leo

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Twain, Mark

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Richards, R. Scott