Motivational Quotes

Truth

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Dickinson, Emily

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Lennon, John

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

Malcolm X

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hare, J. C.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare