Motivational Quotes

Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Bible

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Blake, William

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas