Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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

Gide, Andre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

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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.

12.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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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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Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

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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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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

25.

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

Davies, Robertson

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I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

31.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Cronkite, Walter

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

Baldwin, James

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Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

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Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Malcolm X

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lennon, John

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

44.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.