Motivational Quotes

Truth

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.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

3.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

4.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

5.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

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

7.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

8.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

9.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

10.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

11.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

14.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

15.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

18.

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)

19.

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

Pascal, Blaise

20.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

21.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

22.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

23.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

24.

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

25.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

26.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

27.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

28.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

30.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

31.

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

Seabury, David

32.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

33.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

34.

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

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

37.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

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.

39.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

40.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

41.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

42.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

43.

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

Confucius

44.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

45.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

46.

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

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.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

49.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

Galileo Galilei