Motivational Quotes

Truth

What is true belongs to me!

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

10.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

11.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Gide, Andre

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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

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Zola, Emile

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Low, Albert

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.