Motivational Quotes

Truth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Luther, Martin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Valery, Paul

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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 an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.