Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Howard, Vernon

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Strachey, Lionel

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Hare, J. C.

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Aristotle

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Luther, Martin

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

43.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.