Motivational Quotes

Truth

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hare, J. C.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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.

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

Twain, Mark

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Gide, Andre

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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 fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.