Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gide, Andre

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

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

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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)

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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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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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Berenson, Bernard

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Aristotle

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Mann, Horace

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.