Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Fuller, Max

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Lennon, John

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Blake, William

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Low, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herbert, Frank

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Gide, Andre

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.