Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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)

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Low, Albert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Seabury, David

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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

41.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.