Motivational Quotes

Truth

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

- Sockman, Ralph W.

Best Quotes about Truth

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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.

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

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

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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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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It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Carrel, Alexis

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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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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 is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Birmingham, Wayne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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

Twain, Mark

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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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