Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

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

Lewis, C. S.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

10.

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

Dickens, Charles

11.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

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Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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

Rogers, Will

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But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

29.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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

Augustine, St.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

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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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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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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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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

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If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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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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Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

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While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

45.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Aristotle

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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 uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

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Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert