Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Emre, Yumus

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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 always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Bible

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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