Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Low, Albert

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

Renard, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Davies, Robertson

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Einstein, Albert

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Kahlil Gibran

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is reality.