Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

- Dickinson, Emily

Best Quotes about Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Aristotle

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

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

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

Confucius

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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

Lee, Bruce

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

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Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

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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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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

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Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

Edith Sitwell

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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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There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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

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Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Twain, Mark

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Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

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See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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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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People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

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Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

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Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

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Truth is always the strongest argument.