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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pilgrim, Peace

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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

Kahlil Gibran

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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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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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bach, Richard

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Epictetus

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