Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Malcolm X

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Darrow, Clarence

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Aristotle

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lennon, John

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Mamet, David

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Twain, Mark

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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 may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb