Motivational Quotes

Truth

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Clarence Darrow

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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

Zola, Emile

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

Norris, Frank

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

Fuller, Max

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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

Berenson, Bernard

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, Joseph F.

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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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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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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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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Lowell, James Russell

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.