Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

4.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

5.

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

Twain, Mark

6.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

7.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

8.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Edith Sitwell

10.

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

Darrow, Clarence

11.

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

Butler, Samuel

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 knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

14.

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

Confucius

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

17.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

18.

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

19.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

20.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

24.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

26.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Renard, Jules

30.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

31.

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

32.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

33.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

34.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

35.

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

Galileo Galilei

36.

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

Mamet, David

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Barnes, Leonard

40.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

41.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

42.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

44.

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

Twain, Mark

45.

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

William Shakespeare

46.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

48.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

50.

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