Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

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

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

Bach, Richard

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

10.

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

Pindar

11.

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

Kersha, Al

12.

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

Hesiod

13.

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

Brandes, George

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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

15.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Herbert Agar

17.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

18.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

19.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

20.

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

Kahlil Gibran

21.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

22.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

27.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

28.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

29.

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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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

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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

32.

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 shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

34.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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