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

Russell, Utterly

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Low, Albert

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

Sontag, Susan

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir 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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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