Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always the strongest argument.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Brandes, George

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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 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.

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Kersha, Al

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

Darrow, Clarence

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Sontag, Susan

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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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 alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tomlin, Lily