Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Truth

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Aristotle

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

Darrow, Clarence

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Blake, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Seabury, David

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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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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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 fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

William Shakespeare

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis