Motivational Quotes

Truth

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Malcolm X

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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 not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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 dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Tom Bissell

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.