Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Hare, J. C.

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.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

11.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

15.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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 is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

18.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Hall, Calvin S.

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Fuller, Thomas

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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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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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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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

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

44.

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

Bible

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