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

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

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Richards, R. Scott

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Galileo Galilei

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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: 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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Stone, W. Clement

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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