Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Voltaire

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Truman, Harry S

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Tomlin, Lily

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Berlin, Irving

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo