Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Tomlin, Lily

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

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Twain, Mark

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Low, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

William Shakespeare

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.