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

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

2.

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

Epictetus

3.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

4.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

5.

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

Mamet, David

6.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

7.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

8.

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

Camus, Albert

9.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

11.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

12.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

13.

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.

14.

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

Darrow, Clarence

15.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

16.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

17.

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Strachey, Lionel

23.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

24.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

26.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

27.

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

Dickens, Charles

28.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

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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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

33.

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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

35.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

36.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

37.

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

Zola, Emile

38.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

39.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

40.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

41.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

42.

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

Bach, Richard

43.

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

44.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

46.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

47.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

48.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma