Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Davies, Robertson

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 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 not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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.

Hsueh-Dou

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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.

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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 the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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What is true belongs to me!