Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Galileo Galilei

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

2.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

3.

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

Aristotle

4.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

5.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

6.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

7.

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

8.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

9.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

10.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

14.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

15.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

16.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Darrow, Clarence

19.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

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

24.

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

Blake, William

25.

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

Scott Westerfeld

26.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

27.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

28.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

29.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

30.

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

31.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

32.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

33.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

34.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

35.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

36.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

37.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

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.

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Darrow, Clarence

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

44.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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.

46.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

47.

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

Bach, Richard

48.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

49.

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