Motivational Quotes

Truth

A half truth is a whole lie.

- Proverb, Yiddish

Best Quotes about Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Rostand, Jean

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Bible

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Hare, J. C.

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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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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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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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.

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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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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard