Motivational Quotes

Truth

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)

Best Quotes about Truth

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Lennon, John

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

Pascal, Blaise

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Fuller, Max

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Low, Albert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

43.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Emre, Yumus

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Blake, William