Motivational Quotes

Truth

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

- Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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)

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Edith Sitwell

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Seabury, David

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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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 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 may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.