Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Clarence Darrow

Best Quotes about Truth

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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

Augustine, St.

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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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 are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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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

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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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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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Lennon, John

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Blake, William

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

Kersha, Al

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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

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

Rosten, Leo

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.