Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Berenson, Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Fuller, Max

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Luther, Martin

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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

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

Scott Westerfeld