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

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

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Epictetus

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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.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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

Edith Sitwell

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Augustine, St.

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Bach, Richard

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mamet, David

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont