Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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

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

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

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Berenson, Bernard

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Herbert, Frank

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Zola, Emile

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, 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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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Renard, Jules

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Butler, Samuel

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Valery, Paul

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.