Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

2.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

3.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

4.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

5.

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

6.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

7.

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

Pindar

8.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

11.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

12.

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

Bach, Richard

13.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

14.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

15.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

Truman, Harry S

17.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

18.

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

Epictetus

19.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

20.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

21.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

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

23.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

24.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

26.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

27.

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

Edith Sitwell

28.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

29.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

31.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

33.

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

Lee, Bruce

34.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

35.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

37.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

38.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

39.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

40.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

43.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

44.

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

Russell, Utterly

45.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

46.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

47.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

48.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

49.

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

50.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal