Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Birmingham, Wayne

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

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 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

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Valery, Paul

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Voltaire

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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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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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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Kersha, Al

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