Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mamet, David

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

Low, Albert

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Clarence Darrow

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Edith Sitwell

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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 a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Baldwin, James

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales