Motivational Quotes

Truth

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

- Farnham, Eliza

Best Quotes about Truth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Aristotle

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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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 greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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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 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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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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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

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Davies, Robertson

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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