Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Russell, Utterly

Best Quotes about Truth

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Hare, J. C.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

14.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Herbert Agar

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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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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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See it like it is!