Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Joseph F.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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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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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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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

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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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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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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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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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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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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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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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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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

Low, Albert

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

Davies, Robertson

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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