Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Low, Albert

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Emre, Yumus

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek