Motivational Quotes

Truth

Tell the truth and then run.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

6.

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

Dickens, Charles

7.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

8.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

10.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

11.

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

12.

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

Bach, Richard

13.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

14.

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

15.

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

Brandes, George

16.

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

Pindar

17.

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

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

19.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

22.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

23.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

24.

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

Tom Bissell

25.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

26.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

29.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

30.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Bible

33.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

34.

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

Davies, Robertson

35.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

37.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

38.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

39.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

40.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

44.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

45.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

46.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

47.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

48.

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

49.

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

Mamet, David

50.

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