Motivational Quotes

Truth

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

- Bradley, Francis H.

Best Quotes about Truth

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Herbert, Frank

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Fuller, Max

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Tomlin, Lily

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Hesse, Hermann

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Rogers, Will

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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