Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Lennon, John

11.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

14.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hesse, Hermann

19.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

25.

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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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 is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

42.

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

45.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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 is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire