Motivational Quotes

Truth

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Truth

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Epictetus

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

18.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Herbert, Frank

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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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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Hare, J. C.

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