Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lewis, C. S.

Best Quotes about Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Whately, Richard

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Rostand, Jean

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Fuller, Max

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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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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Berlin, Irving

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Truman, Harry S

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Truth alone wounds.