Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Clarence Darrow

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tom Bissell

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry 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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Davies, Robertson

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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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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hare, J. C.