Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

- Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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.

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Epictetus

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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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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Butler, Samuel

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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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The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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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

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

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

Berenson, Bernard

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We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

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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 lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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