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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Halifax, Edward F.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gide, Andre

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth is its own reward.