Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is its own reward.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

4.

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.

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

8.

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

Strachey, Lionel

9.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

10.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

11.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

14.

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

Mann, Horace

15.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

Clarence Darrow

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

23.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

24.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

25.

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

26.

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

Twain, Mark

27.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Zola, Emile

29.

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

Twain, Mark

30.

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

Dickinson, Emily

31.

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

Howard, Vernon

32.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

33.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.

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

Tom Bissell

35.

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

Scott Westerfeld

36.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

37.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

39.

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

40.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

43.

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

44.

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)

45.

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

46.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman