Motivational Quotes

Truth

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

- Low, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Carrel, Alexis

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Epictetus

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Kersha, Al

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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