Motivational Quotes

Truth

The truth is more important than the facts.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

2.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

3.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

4.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

5.

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

Dickinson, Emily

6.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

7.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

8.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

Rosten, Leo

13.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Lee, Bruce

17.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

18.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

19.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

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.

24.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

25.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

26.

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)

27.

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

Renard, Jules

28.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

29.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

30.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

34.

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

35.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

36.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

37.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

38.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

41.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

42.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

43.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

44.

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

45.

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

Davies, Robertson

46.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

47.

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

48.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

49.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

50.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare