Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Einstein, Albert

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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

Blake, William

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

Pancoast, Mal

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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

Churchill, Winston

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Voltaire

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Bible

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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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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Aristotle

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

Penn, William

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.