Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Richards, R. Scott

15.

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

Bible

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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 truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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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.

33.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Emre, Yumus

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.