Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Voltaire

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

12.

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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carrel, Alexis

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

27.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

36.

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

Pascal, Blaise

38.

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

Farnham, Eliza

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

41.

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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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Churchill, Winston

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.