Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

12.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hesiod

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Luther, Martin

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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 is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Wilder, Billy

37.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Kersha, Al

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Low, Albert

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Carrel, Alexis