Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Bible

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

10.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Voltaire

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

28.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

35.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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