Motivational Quotes

Truth

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lennon, John

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Rostand, Jean

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

10.

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

11.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

13.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

15.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

16.

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 truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

20.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

21.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

22.

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

Blake, William

23.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

24.

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.

25.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

28.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

30.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

31.

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

Hare, J. C.

32.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Kahlil Gibran

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

39.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

40.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

41.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

42.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carrel, Alexis

44.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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

49.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

50.

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.