Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

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

Howard, Vernon

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

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

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

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Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

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The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

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Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

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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

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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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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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Farnham, Eliza

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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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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

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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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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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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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