Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gordimer, Nadine

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Camus, Albert

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Valery, Paul

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Low, Albert

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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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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Luther, Martin

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Howard, Vernon

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma