Motivational Quotes

Truth

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Rostand, Jean

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Fuller, Max

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Lennon, John

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Berenson, Bernard

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