Motivational Quotes

Truth

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Galileo Galilei

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

Voltaire

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Low, Albert

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

Blake, William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Kersha, Al

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Bach, Richard

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Aristotle

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.