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 truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Twain, Mark

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

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

13.

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

Truman, Harry S

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

16.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

17.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Blake, William

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

40.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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: 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.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Davies, Robertson

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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