Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Hesiod

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Emre, Yumus

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Low, Albert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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