Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Lennon, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Strachey, Lionel

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.