Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Howard, Vernon

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Gide, Andre

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

Einstein, Albert

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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, 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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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 is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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