Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

William Shakespeare

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rostand, Jean

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Dickinson, Emily

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Lee, Bruce

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Malcolm X

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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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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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