Motivational Quotes

Truth

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

- Emre, Yumus

Best Quotes about Truth

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Whately, Richard

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Mamet, David

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

Pancoast, Mal

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bible

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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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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Valery, Paul

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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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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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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