Motivational Quotes

Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Penn, William

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Edith Sitwell

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Camus, Albert

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

Stone, W. Clement

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

William Shakespeare

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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 fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Low, Albert

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Renard, Jules

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kersha, Al

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

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