Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Cronkite, Walter

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Pindar

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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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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mamet, David

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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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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 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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Low, Albert

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Twain, Mark

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Lennon, John

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De