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

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

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

Pindar

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Bible

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Blake, William

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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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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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