Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Jefferson, Thomas

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

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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I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gide, Andre

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The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tomlin, Lily

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I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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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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 is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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

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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 stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Darrow, Clarence

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Herbert, Frank

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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

Pindar

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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

Blake, William