Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Strachey, Lionel

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

10.

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

Fuller, Max

11.

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

12.

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

Kahlil Gibran

13.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

15.

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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

17.

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

Butler, Samuel

18.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

19.

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

Rostand, Jean

20.

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

Blake, William

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

25.

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

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Rosten, Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

30.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

31.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

34.

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

Kersha, Al

35.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Hare, J. C.

38.

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

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Blake, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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