Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Davies, Robertson

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Lennon, John

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

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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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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 is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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 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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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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

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus