Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Clarence Darrow

Best Quotes about Truth

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Epictetus

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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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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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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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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 on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Pindar

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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

Fuller, Max

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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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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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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

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert