Motivational Quotes

Truth

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Seabury, David

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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)

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, 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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Low, Albert

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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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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.