Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Quesnel, Pasquier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Birmingham, Wayne

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Low, Albert

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart