Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Lennon, John

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.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Confucius

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Aristotle

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

23.

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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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'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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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.

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