Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about Truth

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

Augustine, St.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Lennon, John

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Bible

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Zola, Emile

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.