Motivational Quotes

Truth

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Edith Sitwell

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

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

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Low, Albert

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Pancoast, Mal

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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