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

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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

11.

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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Aristotle

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Mamet, David

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hesse, Hermann

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Twain, Mark

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Baldwin, James

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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

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

Halifax, Edward F.