Motivational Quotes

Truth

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

- Saroyan, William

Best Quotes about Truth

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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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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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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 be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Augustine, St.