Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about 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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

20.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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

Howard, Vernon

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lennon, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

32.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Edith Sitwell

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Voltaire

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emre, Yumus

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred