Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Brandes, George

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

Epictetus

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Bach, Richard

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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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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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 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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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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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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

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I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Davies, Robertson

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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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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Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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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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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Zola, Emile

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

William Shakespeare

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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

William Shakespeare

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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 will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah