Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Barnes, Leonard

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Confucius

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Emre, Yumus

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Epictetus

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kersha, Al

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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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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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