Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

3.

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

Howard, Vernon

4.

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

5.

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

Clarence Darrow

6.

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

Herbert, Frank

7.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

8.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

9.

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

10.

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

11.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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

Mamet, David

13.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

15.

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

Darrow, Clarence

16.

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

Confucius

17.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

18.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

20.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

21.

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

Tom Bissell

22.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

23.

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

Lennon, John

24.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

25.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

26.

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

27.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

28.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

29.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.

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)

34.

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

Lowell, James Russell

35.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

39.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Kersha, Al

41.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

42.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

43.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

44.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

45.

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

Adler, Alfred

46.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

50.

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