Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

- Gwyn, Doug

Best Quotes about Truth

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Darrow, Clarence

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Balfour, Arthur James

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Mamet, David

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hesiod

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

12.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Kersha, Al

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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

Howard, Vernon

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Emre, Yumus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Voltaire

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Rogers, Will

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.