Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Twain, Mark

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Kersha, Al

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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