Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Fuller, Max

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

Aristotle

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Norris, Frank

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lennon, John

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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.

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

Bible

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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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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence