Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Bradley, Francis H.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Zola, Emile

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.