Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Barnes, Leonard

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Hall, Calvin S.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Blake, William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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

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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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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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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

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Confucius

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Voltaire

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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