Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Tomlin, Lily

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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 alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Low, Albert

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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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 can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bach, Richard

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth and virtue conquer.

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