Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Truth

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

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

William Shakespeare

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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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 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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Aristotle

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

West, Jessamyn

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank