Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Butler, Samuel

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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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

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Low, Albert

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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