Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Best Quotes about Truth

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

2.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

3.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

4.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

5.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

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

Pancoast, Mal

7.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

8.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

9.

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

Penn, William

10.

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

11.

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

Rogers, Will

12.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

13.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

14.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

16.

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

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Fuller, Max

19.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

20.

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

21.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

22.

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

Camus, Albert

23.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

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

Scott Westerfeld

25.

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.

26.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

27.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

29.

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

30.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

31.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

36.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

37.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

38.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

40.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

41.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

45.

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

Edith Sitwell

46.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

47.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

49.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

50.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde