Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

- Motto

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

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.

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

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

Malcolm X

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Dickinson, Emily

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.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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 truth is lived, not taught.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Stone, W. Clement

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Blake, William

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Kersha, Al

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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

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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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 lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.