Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Davies, Robertson

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Hesiod

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

Truman, Harry S

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Luther, Martin

43.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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