Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Brandes, George

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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 ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Herbert, Frank

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard