Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bible

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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

Blake, William

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Lennon, John

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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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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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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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Butler, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Bach, Richard

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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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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Epictetus

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Voltaire

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Luther, Martin

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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.