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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Rosten, Leo

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

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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Howard, Vernon

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Twain, Mark

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Lennon, John

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Renard, Jules

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Merzel, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Tom Bissell

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Emre, Yumus

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Herbert Agar

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hemingway, Ernest