Motivational Quotes

Truth

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

William Shakespeare

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

Russell, Utterly

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Baldwin, James

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Seabury, David

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Herbert Agar

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Berenson, Bernard

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Voltaire

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Augustine, St.

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish