Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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)

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

Voltaire

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

Aristotle

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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

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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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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.