Motivational Quotes

Truth

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

- Tom Bissell

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

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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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

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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

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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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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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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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

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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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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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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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

Brandes, George

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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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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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Davies, Robertson

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gide, Andre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Emre, Yumus

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I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

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

Thatcher, Margaret

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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Malcolm X

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Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline