Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Rosten, Leo

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

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Bible

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Sontag, Susan

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Low, Albert