Motivational Quotes

Truth

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Darrow, Clarence

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Penn, William

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.