Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Pilgrim, Peace

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Mamet, David

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Zola, Emile

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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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Aristotle

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.