Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Brandes, George

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Emre, Yumus

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Davies, Robertson

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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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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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Low, Albert

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Zola, Emile

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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 truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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 often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Whately, Richard