Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Pindar

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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 most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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 ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kersha, Al

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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 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

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

Bible

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut