Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Augustine, St.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Malcolm X

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Twain, Mark

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

Blake, William

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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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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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.