Motivational Quotes

Truth

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

- Darrow, Clarence

Best Quotes about Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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

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

Bach, Richard

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Brandes, George

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Confucius

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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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.

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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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To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

Blake, William

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Luther, Martin

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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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

43.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare