Motivational Quotes

Truth

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Aristotle

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Emre, Yumus

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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 lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Clarence Darrow

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.