Motivational Quotes

Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Middleton, Owen C.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Gibran, Kahlil

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Confucius

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Churchill, Winston

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Low, Albert

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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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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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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 fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.