Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Davies, Robertson

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Kahlil Gibran

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Truman, Harry S

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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 comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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