Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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

Lee, Bruce

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Camus, Albert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

12.

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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Barnes, Leonard

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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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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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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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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

35.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Bible

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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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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 lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Voltaire

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John