Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Whately, Richard

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Twain

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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.

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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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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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

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Seabury, David

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

Bach, Richard

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John