Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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)

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Clarence Darrow

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Tom Bissell

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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