Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Einstein, Albert

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Bible

19.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Hill, Napoleon

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Voltaire

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Augustine, St.

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Gide, Andre

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Rosten, Leo

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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