Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Russell, Utterly

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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

11.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

12.

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

Malcolm X

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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

Bible

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

Edith Sitwell

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Penn, William

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

Mamet, David

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

27.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

28.

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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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 does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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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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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

43.

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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce