Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Low, Albert

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

Middleton, Owen C.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Malcolm X

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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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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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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 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 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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

William Shakespeare

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Baldwin, James

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Zola, Emile

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

Barnes, Leonard

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Aristotle