Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kahlil Gibran

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Low, Albert

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hare, J. C.

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Kahlil Gibran

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lennon, John

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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.