Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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.

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

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gibran, Kahlil

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Hesse, Hermann

23.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Twain, Mark

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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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

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow