Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Truman, Harry S

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Twain, Mark

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Renard, Jules

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

Pancoast, Mal

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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 reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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 always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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.