Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Rostand, Jean

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mann, Horace

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Rogers, Will

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Birmingham, Wayne