Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

- Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

21.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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.

32.

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

Low, Albert

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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 fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Einstein, Albert