Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Voltaire

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

12.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Hesiod

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Blake, William

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Lennon, John

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Luther, Martin

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Berlin, Irving

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence