Motivational Quotes

Truth

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Herbert, Frank

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Voltaire

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Aristotle

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Luther, Martin

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Blake, William

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Bach, Richard

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.