Motivational Quotes

Truth

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

- Prentice, George D.

Best Quotes about Truth

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

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

Butler, Samuel

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Camus, Albert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hesse, Hermann

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Low, Albert

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

Galileo Galilei

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Malcolm X

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

William Shakespeare

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Lennon, John

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.