Motivational Quotes

Truth

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Low, Albert

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Shaw, George Bernard

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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 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 great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, 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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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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

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

Kersha, Al

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

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Aristotle

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei