Motivational Quotes

Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

Kersha, Al

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Seabury, David

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Low, Albert

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Russell, Utterly

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hare, J. C.

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich