Motivational Quotes

Truth

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Pilgrim, Peace

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Baldwin, James

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Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Voltaire

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Mamet, David

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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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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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.