Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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

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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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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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

Mann, Horace

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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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 is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug