Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Merzel, David

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Augustine, St.

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Low, Albert

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.