Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Clarence Darrow

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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

Valery, Paul

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Darrow, Clarence

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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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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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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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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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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 will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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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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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.

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

Seabury, David

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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