Motivational Quotes

Truth

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Low, Albert

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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