Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

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

Truman, Harry S

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bible

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

Kersha, Al

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Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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

Augustine, St.

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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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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

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All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

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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 is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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

Lewis, C. S.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Berenson, Bernard

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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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Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

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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

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean