Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Truman, Harry S

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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

Strachey, Lionel

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Bible

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Valery, Paul

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

Dickens, Charles

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark