Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

- Tom Stoppard

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Butler, Samuel

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Augustine, St.

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

Sontag, Susan

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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Truth and virtue conquer.