Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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.

Pindar

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

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

21.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Seabury, David

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Emre, Yumus

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Churchill, Winston

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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.