Quotes about truth

"I am always going to be true to myself."

Diana, Princess of Wales on truth
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"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."

Dickens, Charles on truth   

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."

Diderot, Denis on truth
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"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth
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"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth   

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"Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time."

Disraeli, Benjamin on truth   

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on truth
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"Truth disappears with the telling of it."

Durrell, Lawrence on truth   

"Only the hand that erases can write the true thing."

Eckhart, Meister on truth   

"All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them."

Einstein, Albert on truth   

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

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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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 on truth
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"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on truth   

"The greater the truth the greater the libel."

Ellenborough, Lord on truth   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth
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"The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

"All necessary truth is its own evidence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on truth   

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

Emre, Yumus on truth   

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

Epictetus on truth   

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

Epictetus on truth   

"The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth."

Farnham, Eliza on truth   

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on truth   

"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) on truth   

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

Freud, Sigmund on truth
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"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) on truth
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"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 on truth
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"Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth."

Fuller, Max on truth   

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

Fuller, Thomas on truth
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"Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth."

Fuller, Thomas on truth   

"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth   

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

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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"There is no god higher than truth."

Gandhi, Mahatma on truth
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