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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

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

Berlin, Irving

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Pindar

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

Renard, Jules

10.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

11.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

12.

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)

13.

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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Blake, William

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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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

21.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Mamet, David

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Blake, William

30.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

33.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

40.

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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von