Motivational Quotes

Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Truth

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

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Low, Albert

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Lee, Bruce

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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.