Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Renard, Jules

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, 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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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