Motivational Quotes

Truth

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

- Hemingway, Ernest

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Twain, Mark

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

Epictetus

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Augustine, St.

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Churchill, Winston

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon