Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Birmingham, Wayne

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Halifax, Edward F.

10.

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 is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Low, Albert

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Blake, William

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Howard, Vernon

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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 trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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.

44.

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 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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.