Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

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

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Rosten, Leo

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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 so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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

Blake, William

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Barnes, Leonard

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Kersha, Al

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mamet, David

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig