Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Renard, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Valery, Paul

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Camus, Albert

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kersha, Al

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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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

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Berenson, Bernard

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Emre, Yumus

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.