Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Truth

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

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

Tom Bissell

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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 is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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

Zola, Emile

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

Voltaire

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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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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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Blake, William

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