Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Twain, Mark

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Hare, J. C.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Hesse, Hermann

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

11.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Confucius

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gide, Andre

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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 is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Pancoast, Mal

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.