Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth does not contradict truth.

- Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

Best Quotes about Truth

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

W. Somerset Maugham

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

William Shakespeare

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

Russell, Utterly

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hare, J. C.

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis, C. S.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Howard, Vernon

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.