Motivational Quotes

Truth

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

2.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

3.

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

Scott Westerfeld

4.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

5.

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

6.

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

Luther, Martin

7.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

9.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

13.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

17.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

18.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

22.

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

23.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

24.

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

25.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

26.

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

27.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

28.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

29.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

30.

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

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

33.

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

Darrow, Clarence

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

36.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

38.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

39.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

40.

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

Howard, Vernon

41.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

42.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

43.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

45.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

46.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

47.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

48.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

49.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

50.

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