Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

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

Rostand, Jean

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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

Stone, W. Clement

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mark Twain

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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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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

Emre, Yumus

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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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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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

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

Gide, Andre

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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

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Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

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The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

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Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

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All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold