Motivational Quotes

Truth

Too much truth is uncouth.

- Adams, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Truth

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Berenson, Bernard

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Bible

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

Sontag, Susan

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mamet, David

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.