Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Mamet, David

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

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

Lennon, John

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

Augustine, St.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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 and virtue conquer.

Motto

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Pindar

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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