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

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Bible

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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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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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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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Baldwin, James

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Confucius

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma