Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Wilder, Billy

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

Gordimer, Nadine

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Richards, R. Scott

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Emre, Yumus

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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 is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Aristotle

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Aristotle

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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 stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Renard, Jules

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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What is true belongs to me!