Motivational Quotes

Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

- Stevens, Wallace

Best Quotes about Truth

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Kersha, Al

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Renard, Jules

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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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

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Bible

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.