Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Sontag, Susan

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Twain, Mark

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hare, J. C.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lennon, John

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

Howard, Vernon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Darrow, Clarence