Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about 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

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Richards, R. Scott

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)

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

Low, Albert

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

Valery, Paul

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Sontag, Susan

11.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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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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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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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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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

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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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 have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Butler, Samuel

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily