Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Camus, Albert

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

Gide, Andre

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

Rogers, Will

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Augustine, St.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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

Dickinson, Emily

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Bach, Richard

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

Rostand, Jean

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Merzel, David

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham