Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Voltaire

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)

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

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.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

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

William Shakespeare

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bach, Richard

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

Bible

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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

Zola, Emile

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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 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 told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus