Motivational Quotes

Truth

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Stone, W. Clement

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Confucius

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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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

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Truman, Harry S

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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)

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Mamet, David

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Augustine, St.

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Herbert, Frank

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent