Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

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

Aristotle

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple