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

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

Luther, Martin

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Darrow, Clarence

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hesiod

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

William Shakespeare

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Blake, William

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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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

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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 sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Aristotle

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

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

44.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Penn, William

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.