Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Merzel, David

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Confucius

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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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

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Clarence Darrow

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Twain, Mark

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas