Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Granville, Joseph E.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

10.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

11.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

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

Confucius

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Blake, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Renard, Jules

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Sontag, Susan

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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 is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.