Motivational Quotes

Truth

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

- Smith, Joseph F.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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

Stone, W. Clement

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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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 is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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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 most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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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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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Butler, Samuel

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert