Motivational Quotes

Truth

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Rostand, Jean

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert