Motivational Quotes

Truth

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

- Springsteen, Bruce

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

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

Bach, Richard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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

Butler, Samuel

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Camus, Albert

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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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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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Clarence Darrow

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

William Shakespeare

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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

Blake, William

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

Farnham, Eliza

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce