Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Aristotle

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

Kahlil Gibran

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Strachey, Lionel

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.