Motivational Quotes

Truth

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

- Farnham, Eliza

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Brandes, George

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

Davies, Robertson

11.

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.

12.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Low, Albert

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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)

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Emre, Yumus

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Camus, Albert

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Lowell, James Russell

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard