Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Truth

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)

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Low, Albert

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Adler, Alfred

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Farnham, Eliza

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Gide, Andre

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

Blake, William

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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 is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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