Motivational Quotes

Truth

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Kahlil Gibran

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Bible

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

10.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Brandes, George

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Howard, Vernon

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truman, Harry S

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.