Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

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

Darrow, Clarence

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

Howard, Vernon

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

Walters, Hellmut

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

Middleton, Owen C.

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

Augustine, St.

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

Confucius

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

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

12.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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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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All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

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Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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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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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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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

Mamet, David

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You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

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What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

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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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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

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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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Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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

Whately, Richard

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

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

Malcolm X

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

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But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi