Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

2.

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

Howard, Vernon

3.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

4.

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

Darrow, Clarence

5.

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

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

8.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

9.

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

10.

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

11.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

12.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

13.

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

Seabury, David

14.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

15.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

17.

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

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

Davies, Robertson

19.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

20.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

21.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

22.

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)

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Augustine, St.

28.

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

29.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

30.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

31.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

32.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

33.

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

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.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

36.

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

37.

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

Blake, William

38.

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

Blake, William

39.

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

40.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

41.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

42.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

44.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

45.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

49.

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.

50.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert