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

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Twain, Mark

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Gide, Andre

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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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]

Bible

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus