Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Voltaire

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

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.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

18.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

19.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

20.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

23.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

24.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

26.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

Lennon, John

28.

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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

30.

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

Pascal, Blaise

31.

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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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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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

34.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Gide, Andre

39.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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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

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Low, Albert

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.