Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Low, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lennon, John

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

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

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Lee, Bruce

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Low, Albert

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Renard, Jules

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich