Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

- Helvetius, Claude A.

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Herbert, Frank

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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

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

Confucius

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Aristotle

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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

Aristotle

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George