Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Davies, Robertson

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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 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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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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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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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Truman, Harry S

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