Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hamilton, Sir William

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Dickens, Charles

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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

Richards, R. Scott

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

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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 stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bible

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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