Motivational Quotes

Truth

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

- Epictetus

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Farnham, Eliza

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

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Cronkite, Walter

10.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

11.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

12.

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

Valery, Paul

13.

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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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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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Brandes, George

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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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

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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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