Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Bible

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Voltaire

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Mark Twain

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Gide, Andre

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rogers, Will

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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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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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Huxley, Thomas H.