Motivational Quotes

Truth

There is no god higher than truth.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

William Shakespeare

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.

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

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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

Hare, J. C.

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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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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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Blake, William

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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

Clarence Darrow

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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

William Shakespeare

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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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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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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.