Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lowell, James Russell

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

13.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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.

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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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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

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

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

Kahlil Gibran

41.

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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Malcolm X