Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Low, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Farnham, Eliza

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Epictetus

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

Tom Bissell

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

29.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Clarence Darrow