Motivational Quotes

Truth

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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

Darrow, Clarence

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Zola, Emile

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Herbert, Frank

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Blake, William

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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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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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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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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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Low, Albert

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

Renard, Jules

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

Hare, J. C.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Twain, Mark

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.