Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bach, Richard

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

Brandes, George

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lee, Bruce

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

William Shakespeare

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Voltaire

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Kersha, Al

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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 rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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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.