Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Pilgrim, Peace

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

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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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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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Low, Albert

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.