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.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

2.

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.

3.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

4.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

5.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

6.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

7.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

8.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

9.

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

Galileo Galilei

10.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

11.

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

12.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

13.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

14.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

16.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

17.

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)

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

Kahlil Gibran

20.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

21.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

22.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Darrow, Clarence

27.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

28.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

29.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

30.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

31.

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.

32.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

33.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

34.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

Confucius

38.

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

39.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

41.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

42.

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

Einstein, Albert

43.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

44.

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

Mamet, David

45.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

46.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

47.

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.

48.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

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

Brandes, George

50.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia