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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Brandes, George

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

Davies, Robertson

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

10.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

13.

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

Kersha, Al

14.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

15.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

16.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

18.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

19.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

24.

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Rosten, Leo

27.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

28.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

30.

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

Bach, Richard

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

33.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

34.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Howard, Vernon

41.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

43.

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

44.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

45.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.