Motivational Quotes

Truth

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Luther, Martin

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

Augustine, St.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Butler, Samuel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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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

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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

Low, Albert

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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