Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Joubert, Joseph

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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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 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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

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