Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Churchill, Winston

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Merzel, David

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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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 is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Bible

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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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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

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.