Motivational Quotes

Truth

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

- Fuller, Max

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

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

10.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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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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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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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

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Rosten, Leo

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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

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.