Motivational Quotes

Truth

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

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

Penn, William

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hill, Napoleon

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

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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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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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

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.