Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Lennon, John

10.

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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Merzel, David

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Bible

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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.

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

William Shakespeare

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William