Motivational Quotes

Truth

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Malcolm X

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

28.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Carrel, Alexis

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton