Motivational Quotes

Truth

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

- Fuller, Max

Best Quotes about Truth

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

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

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Clarence Darrow

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

Bible

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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

Butler, Samuel

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Mamet, David

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.