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

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

Clarence Darrow

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.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

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No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Voltaire

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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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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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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

Baldwin, James

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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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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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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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert