Motivational Quotes

Truth

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

- Agnes Repplier

Best Quotes about Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Kahlil Gibran

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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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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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

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

Butler, Samuel

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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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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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 is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert