Motivational Quotes

Truth

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Epictetus

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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

Kahlil Gibran

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Brandes, George

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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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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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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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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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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

Whately, Richard

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.