Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

- Blake, William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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 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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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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

37.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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 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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Howard, Vernon

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone