Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

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.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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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 greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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

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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Augustine, St.

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Brandes, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Camus, Albert

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory