Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Augustine, St.

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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 more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Rostand, Jean

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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.