Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Lee, Bruce

2.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

3.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

4.

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

Bach, Richard

5.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

6.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

7.

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

Kahlil Gibran

8.

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

9.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

10.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

11.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

12.

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

Pindar

13.

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

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

Galileo Galilei

15.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

16.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

17.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

18.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

19.

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

20.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

21.

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.

22.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

23.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

24.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

25.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

27.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

28.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

29.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

30.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

31.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

32.

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

Hesse, Hermann

33.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

34.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

36.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

37.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

38.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

39.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

40.

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

41.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

44.

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

Davies, Robertson

45.

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

46.

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

Aristotle

47.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

49.

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

Adler, Alfred

50.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.