Motivational Quotes

Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Clarence Darrow

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.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

William Shakespeare

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Epictetus

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

18.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

21.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

22.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Malcolm X

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

Strachey, Lionel

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

44.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

48.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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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