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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Confucius

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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)

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

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Herbert, Frank

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Kersha, Al

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rostand, Jean

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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