Motivational Quotes

Truth

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Halifax, Edward F.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

Bradley, Francis H.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Kersha, Al

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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There is no god higher than truth.