Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the 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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Edith Sitwell

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Kersha, Al

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Luther, Martin

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Low, Albert

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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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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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