Motivational Quotes

Truth

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Gide, Andre

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Bach, Richard

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

Truman, Harry S