Motivational Quotes

Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Bible

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Low, Albert

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

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Blake, William

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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 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

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Valery, Paul

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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