Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Granville, Joseph E.

Best Quotes about Truth

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Voltaire

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

Russell, Utterly

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Brandes, George

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Lennon, John

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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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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Herbert, Frank

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Bible

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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

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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.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Rogers, Will

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory