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

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

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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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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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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Hare, J. C.

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.