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

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

12.

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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

20.

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

Howard, Vernon

21.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

32.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Gide, Andre

34.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 is its own reward.

Plato

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

Augustine, St.

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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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