Motivational Quotes

Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Pascal, Blaise

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

10.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

13.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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

Dickinson, Emily

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.