Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fuller, Max

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

Aristotle

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Davies, Robertson

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

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

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.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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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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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 is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Luther, Martin

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Seabury, David

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

Gordimer, Nadine

34.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Norris, Frank