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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Scott Westerfeld

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Low, Albert

10.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

11.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank