Motivational Quotes

Truth

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Howard, Vernon

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Baldwin, James

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Low, Albert

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Bible

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Bach, Richard

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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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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Aristotle

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Balfour, Arthur James

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Seabury, David

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)