Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

- Rosten, Leo

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Camus, Albert

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

Low, Albert

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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

Russell, Utterly

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Truman, Harry S

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Blake, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

Davies, Robertson

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

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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