Motivational Quotes

Truth

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

- Borne, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Truth

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Kersha, Al

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.

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

Bible

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Davies, Robertson

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

10.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

11.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

12.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

13.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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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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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Barnes, Leonard

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

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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.