Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Voltaire

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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 truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davies, Robertson

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Clarence Darrow

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace