Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Berenson, Bernard

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Blake, William

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

Aristotle

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

14.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lewis, C. S.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Carrel, Alexis

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bach, Richard

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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

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Tomlin, Lily

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Howard, Vernon