Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Tomlin, Lily

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Gordimer, Nadine

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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

11.

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

Low, Albert

12.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

18.

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 ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Berenson, Bernard

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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

27.

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

28.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Aristotle

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Truth alone wounds.