Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Baldwin, James

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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)

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Seabury, David

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Renard, Jules

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Twain, Mark

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lowell, James Russell

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline