Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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)

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

Brandes, George

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.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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

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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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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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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Zola, Emile

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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

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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 a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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