Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Lee, Bruce

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hare, J. C.

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

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Granville, Joseph E.

12.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Gide, Andre

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Whately, Richard

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Aristotle

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

Hesse, Hermann

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'