Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Truth

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

13.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Russell, Utterly

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

18.

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

Rostand, Jean

19.

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

Lee, Bruce

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bach, Richard

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Baldwin, James

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Twain, Mark

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Aristotle