Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Barnes, Leonard

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Renard, Jules

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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.

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Adler, Alfred

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Emre, Yumus

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.