Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Camus, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Mann, Horace

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Herbert, Frank

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pindar

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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