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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Epictetus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Herbert Agar

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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 lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Luther, Martin

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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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

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gide, Andre

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Fuller, Max

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.