Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

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

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

10.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

11.

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

Dickinson, Emily

12.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

14.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

18.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Blake, William

20.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

22.

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.

23.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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.

25.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

26.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Dickens, Charles

29.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

30.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

32.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Twain, Mark

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Gide, Andre

38.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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

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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

44.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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