Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

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Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Truman, Harry S

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The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

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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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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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 is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Augustine, St.

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Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

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

Davies, Robertson

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hamilton, Sir William

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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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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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

Twain, Mark

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If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier