Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Norris, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Einstein, Albert

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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.

10.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

11.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

27.

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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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Low, Albert

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Richards, R. Scott

44.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Quesnel, Pasquier