Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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)

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Berlin, Irving

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Augustine, St.

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Truman, Harry S

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Malcolm X

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.