Motivational Quotes

Truth

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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Best Quotes about Truth

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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.

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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

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

Valery, Paul

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Luther, Martin

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

25.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Stone, W. Clement

32.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Low, Albert

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

Blake, William

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Richards, R. Scott

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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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.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul