Motivational Quotes

Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

- Nunn, Gregory

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

2.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

3.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

4.

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

Einstein, Albert

5.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

6.

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

7.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Howard, Vernon

9.

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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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

11.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

15.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

16.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

17.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

18.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

19.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

21.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Hare, J. C.

25.

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

26.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

27.

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

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

32.

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

Berenson, Bernard

33.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

34.

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

35.

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

Richards, R. Scott

36.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

37.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

38.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

39.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

40.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

41.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

42.

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

Joubert, Joseph

43.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

44.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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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

47.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

49.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

50.

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