Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Twain, Mark

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Gide, Andre

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Bible

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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.