Motivational Quotes

Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Truth

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Luther, Martin

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

Churchill, Winston

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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 is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.