Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Valery, Paul

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Walters, Hellmut

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

19.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Howard, Vernon

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Blake, William

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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

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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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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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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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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 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

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal