Motivational Quotes

Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

- Liebig

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

10.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

11.

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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

15.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

16.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

17.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

18.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Adler, Alfred

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

28.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gibran, Kahlil

43.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Blake, William