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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Confucius

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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

Emre, Yumus

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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.

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

Aristotle

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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