Motivational Quotes

Truth

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Baldwin, James

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

William Shakespeare

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Low, Albert

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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