Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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)

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lennon, John

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Luther, Martin

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Tomlin, Lily

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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