Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Boerhaave, Herman

Best Quotes about Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fuller, Thomas

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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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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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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Brandes, George

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

28.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Davies, Robertson

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank