Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bible

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Augustine, St.

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Bach, Richard

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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