Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Hesiod

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Dickinson, Emily

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Augustine, St.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Herbert, Frank

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Butler, Samuel

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Granville, Joseph E.

34.

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

Confucius

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.