Motivational Quotes

Truth

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

- Merzel, David

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gide, Andre

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Bible

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Rostand, Jean

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Pancoast, Mal

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.