Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Scott Westerfeld

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Zola, Emile

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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'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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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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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon