Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

- Herbert Agar

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truman, Harry S

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Camus, Albert

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Seabury, David

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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul