Motivational Quotes

Truth

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Truth

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Aristotle

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

Hesiod

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Low, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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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 truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

West, Jessamyn

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.