Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Lennon, John

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Jefferson, Thomas

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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

Malcolm X

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

Bible

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

William Shakespeare

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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

Howard, Vernon

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Low, Albert

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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

Augustine, St.

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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

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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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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 forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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