Motivational Quotes

Truth

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

- Alder, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lowell, James Russell

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Hesse, Hermann

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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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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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.