Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hall, Calvin S.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Blake, William

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

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

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Rosten, Leo

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Herbert Agar

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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.

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Churchill, Winston

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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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.

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas