Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Diderot, Denis

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Blake, William

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

10.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

11.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

12.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

13.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

15.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

16.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

18.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Berenson, Bernard

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

27.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

28.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

29.

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

Kersha, Al

30.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

31.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

40.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Renard, Jules

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

46.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

49.

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 arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis