Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Balfour, Arthur James

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Brandes, George

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Galileo Galilei

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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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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Tom Bissell

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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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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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 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

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Seabury, David

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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