Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Berenson, Bernard

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mamet, David

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

West, Jessamyn

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Valery, Paul

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

Malcolm X

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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Edith Sitwell

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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

Emre, Yumus

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The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

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

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Whately, Richard

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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

Russell, Utterly