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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Stone, W. Clement

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Sontag, Susan

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Edith Sitwell

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Blake, William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Lennon, John

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson