Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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 is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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 can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Aristotle

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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

Edith Sitwell

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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