Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Davies, Robertson

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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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