Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Fuller, Thomas

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Gordimer, Nadine

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Blake, William

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Rosten, Leo

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Bible

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Herbert, Frank

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

Hesiod

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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

Truman, Harry S

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard