Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Truth

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sontag, Susan

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davies, Robertson

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hare, J. C.

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

Tom Stoppard

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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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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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Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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

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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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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.