Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Kersha, Al

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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

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

Lennon, John

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Twain, Mark

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Berenson, Bernard

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Aristotle

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Twain, Mark

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Low, Albert

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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

47.

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

Sontag, Susan

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