Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Birmingham, Wayne

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hesiod

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Merzel, David

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Augustine, St.

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hare, J. C.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.