Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Herbert, Frank

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

2.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

3.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

4.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

5.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

6.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

7.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

8.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

9.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

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

Dickinson, Emily

11.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

12.

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

Sontag, Susan

13.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

14.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

Renard, Jules

17.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

18.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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.

20.

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

Darrow, Clarence

21.

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

Berenson, Bernard

22.

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

23.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

24.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

25.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

27.

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

Lee, Bruce

28.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

29.

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

Truman, Harry S

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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.

32.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

33.

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

Scott Westerfeld

34.

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

35.

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

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

William Shakespeare

37.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

38.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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

40.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

41.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

42.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

44.

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

Blake, William

45.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle