Motivational Quotes

Truth

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Boerhaave, Herman

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Bible

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

Berenson, Bernard

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

W. Somerset Maugham

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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 never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Herbert, Frank

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Low, Albert

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.