Motivational Quotes

Truth

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Truth

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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

Herbert Agar

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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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Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

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There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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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

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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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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True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Mamet, David

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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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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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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

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

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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 criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

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Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

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

Jefferson, Thomas

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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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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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.