Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

- Middleton, Owen C.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Penn, William

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

Smith, Joseph F.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Davies, Robertson

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Emre, Yumus

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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

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Aristotle

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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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 truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.