Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

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.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Richards, R. Scott

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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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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 is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.