Motivational Quotes

Truth

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Best Quotes about Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Norris, Frank

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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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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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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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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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.