Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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.

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

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Bible

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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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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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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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Truman, Harry S

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Tom Bissell

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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.