Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Blake, William

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Herbert, Frank

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Rosten, Leo

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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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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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.