Motivational Quotes

Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

2.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

3.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

4.

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

5.

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

Renard, Jules

6.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

9.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Low, Albert

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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

12.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

15.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

16.

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

Sontag, Susan

17.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

18.

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.

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

20.

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

21.

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

22.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

23.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

25.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

26.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

27.

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

Pindar

28.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

29.

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

30.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

31.

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

32.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

33.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

34.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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