Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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

Clarence Darrow

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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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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Fuller, Max

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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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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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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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If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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 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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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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 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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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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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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