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

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

Malcolm X

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

Carrel, Alexis

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Zola, Emile

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Howard, Vernon

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kersha, Al

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Confucius

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Mamet, David

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Brandes, George

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

Cronkite, Walter

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Davies, Robertson

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels