Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

12.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Bach, Richard

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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)

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Lennon, John

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

Blake, William

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

Camus, Albert

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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]

Bible

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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