Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

16.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Epictetus

18.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

25.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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

29.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

William Shakespeare

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Mamet, David

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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.