Motivational Quotes

Truth

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

3.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

10.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

11.

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

12.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

13.

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

14.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

15.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

16.

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

Fuller, Thomas

17.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

18.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

19.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

20.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

21.

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

Pindar

22.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

23.

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

Brandes, George

24.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

25.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

26.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

27.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

29.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

31.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

32.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

33.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

Truman, Harry S

35.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

36.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

37.

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

38.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

39.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

40.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

41.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

42.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

43.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

44.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

45.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

46.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

47.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

48.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

49.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

50.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.