Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Diderot, Denis

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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

Lennon, John

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Epictetus

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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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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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 bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Davies, Robertson

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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 pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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