Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Churchill, Winston

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

32.

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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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