Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Tom Bissell

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Rosten, Leo

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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 is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Low, Albert

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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.