Motivational Quotes

Truth

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Mark Twain

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gide, Andre

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

Galileo Galilei

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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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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Seabury, David

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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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Baldwin, James

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

William Shakespeare

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.