Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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

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

Seabury, David

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

Baldwin, James

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Blake, William

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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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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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.

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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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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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich