Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Valery, Paul

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

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Butler, Samuel

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Twain, Mark

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Low, Albert

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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.