Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Bible

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Balfour, Arthur James

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Hamilton, Sir William

17.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

19.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

20.

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

Valery, Paul

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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.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

26.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

28.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Hare, J. C.

34.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

35.

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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

39.

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

Berenson, Bernard

40.

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

Twain, Mark

41.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

William Shakespeare

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig