Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

10.

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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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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

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Bible

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

29.

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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Sontag, Susan

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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.