Motivational Quotes

Truth

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

- Tom Bissell

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Voltaire

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Confucius

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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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Galileo Galilei

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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.