Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Joubert, Joseph

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Carrel, Alexis

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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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

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Low, Albert

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Rogers, Will

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

Granville, Joseph E.

43.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

William Shakespeare

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The truth is lived, not taught.