Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Carrel, Alexis

Best Quotes about Truth

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Aristotle

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

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Wilder, Billy

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

William Shakespeare

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

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Rostand, Jean

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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