Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Valery, Paul

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Brandes, George

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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.

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Howard, Vernon

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bach, Richard

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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