Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

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.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Lowell, James Russell

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Epictetus

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Confucius

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Twain, Mark

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hare, J. C.

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.