Motivational Quotes

Truth

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Darrow, Clarence

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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

Aristotle

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Fuller, Max

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Lee, Bruce

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.