Motivational Quotes

Truth

See it like it is!

- Cohen, Herb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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 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

5.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

10.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

13.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

14.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

15.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

19.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

20.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

21.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Mark Twain

23.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

25.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Camus, Albert

27.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

28.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

29.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Berenson, Bernard

33.

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

Herbert Agar

34.

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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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 truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

37.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

38.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

39.

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.

40.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

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

44.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

45.

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

46.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

47.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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