Motivational Quotes

Truth

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Truth

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Blake, William

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Camus, Albert

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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

Aristotle

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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 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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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

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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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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.