Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

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

Gide, Andre

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Aristotle

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Confucius

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Blake, 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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Low, Albert

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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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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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.