Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Clarence Darrow

Best Quotes about Truth

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Herbert, Frank

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

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hare, J. C.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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 half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mamet, 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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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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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Howard, Vernon

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.