Motivational Quotes

Truth

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

- Pindar

Best Quotes about Truth

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Galileo Galilei

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Hamilton, Sir William

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Blake, William

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

Hare, J. C.

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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

Augustine, St.

32.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Fuller, Max

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dickinson, Emily

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.