Motivational Quotes

Truth

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Clarence Darrow

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Baldwin, James

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

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hare, J. C.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Kahlil Gibran

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Kersha, Al

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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

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.