Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hesiod

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Voltaire

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Herbert, Frank

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Luther, Martin

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Emre, Yumus

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Augustine, St.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tomlin, Lily

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander