Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Dickens, Charles

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Clarence Darrow

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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

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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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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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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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

Baldwin, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma