Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is lived, not taught.

- Hesse, Hermann

Best Quotes about Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

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

Carrel, Alexis

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Low, Albert

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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

West, Jessamyn

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Richards, R. Scott

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Butler, Samuel

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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