Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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.

2.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

3.

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

Epictetus

4.

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

Richards, R. Scott

5.

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

Dickinson, Emily

6.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

7.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

8.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

9.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

10.

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

11.

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

Barnes, Leonard

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.

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

Walters, Hellmut

14.

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.

15.

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

Blake, William

16.

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

Truman, Harry S

17.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

18.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

19.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

20.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

21.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

22.

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

Tomlin, Lily

23.

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

24.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

25.

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

Butler, Samuel

26.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

27.

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

Twain, Mark

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

30.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

31.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

32.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

33.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

34.

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

35.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

36.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

37.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

38.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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.

41.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

42.

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

Bach, Richard

43.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

44.

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

Galileo Galilei

45.

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

Howard, Vernon

46.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

47.

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

Gide, Andre

48.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

49.

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

50.

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