Motivational Quotes

Truth

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

- Jerrold, Douglas William

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Brandes, George

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Lennon, John

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.