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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Valery, Paul

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Clarence Darrow

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Kersha, Al

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Rosten, Leo

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Gide, Andre

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Pancoast, Mal

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