Motivational Quotes

Truth

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Low, Albert

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Berenson, Bernard

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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

Blake, William

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Hesse, Hermann

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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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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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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