Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Middleton, Owen C.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

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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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The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

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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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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

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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

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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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If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

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Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

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Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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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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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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There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

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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 most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Granville, Joseph E.

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

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

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

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