Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Hesiod

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Whately, Richard

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Blake, William

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

Howard, Vernon

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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 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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Galileo Galilei

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Bach, Richard

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Blake, William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline