Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

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

Scott Westerfeld

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

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

Galileo Galilei

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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

Richards, R. Scott

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Baldwin, James

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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 truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

36.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Camus, Albert

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Gide, Andre

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Blake, William