Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Butler, Samuel

10.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

11.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

12.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Merzel, David

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Zola, Emile

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

21.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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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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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pilgrim, Peace

31.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Bach, Richard

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Blake, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Einstein, Albert

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Lewis, C. S.