Motivational Quotes

Truth

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

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.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Clarence Darrow

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Gide, Andre

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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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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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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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.

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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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

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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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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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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.

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