Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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 so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Scott Westerfeld

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 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

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Bradley, Francis H.