Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Truth

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Kersha, Al

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.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Voltaire

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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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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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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

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

Epictetus

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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What is true belongs to me!