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

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

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.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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

Aristotle

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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

Bach, Richard

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.