Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Granville, Joseph E.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

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 open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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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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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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

Camus, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander