Motivational Quotes

Truth

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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)

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Merzel, David

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

Adler, Alfred

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Seabury, David

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Einstein, Albert

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.