Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Huxley, Thomas H.

Best Quotes about Truth

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

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

Herbert, Frank

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Richards, R. Scott

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Low, Albert

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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

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

Kersha, Al

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Gide, Andre

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Bible

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Confucius

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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