Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

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

Epictetus

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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

Valery, Paul

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Berenson, Bernard

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

Camus, Albert

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

Clarence Darrow

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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 is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Diderot, Denis

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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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Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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

Rosten, Leo

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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 stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Zola, Emile

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There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

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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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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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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.