Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Thatcher, Margaret

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Norris, Frank

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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

Bible

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

West, Jessamyn

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus