Motivational Quotes

Truth

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Fuller, Thomas

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.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Epictetus

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Sontag, Susan

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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 comes only to a prepared mind.