Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

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

Davies, Robertson

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hesse, Hermann

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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

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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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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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Blake, William

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Aristotle

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Low, Albert

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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