Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Blake, William

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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

Richards, R. Scott

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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

Kersha, Al

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

Mann, Horace

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

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

10.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

11.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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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The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Voltaire

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Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

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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

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

18.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

19.

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

Russell, Utterly

20.

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

Howard, Vernon

21.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

24.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

25.

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

26.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

27.

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

Scott Westerfeld

28.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

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A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Epictetus

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

36.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Tom Bissell

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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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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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What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Stone, W. Clement

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Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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