Motivational Quotes

Truth

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

2.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

3.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

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

5.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

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

Blake, William

10.

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

Scott Westerfeld

11.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

12.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

13.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

14.

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

Richards, R. Scott

15.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

17.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

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

Barnes, Leonard

22.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

24.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

25.

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

Adler, Alfred

26.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

27.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

28.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

29.

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

Mark Twain

30.

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

31.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

32.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

33.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

34.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

Hill, Napoleon

37.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

38.

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

Clarence Darrow

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

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

Walters, Hellmut

41.

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

Blake, William

42.

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

43.

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

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Epictetus

45.

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.

46.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

47.

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

48.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

49.

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.

50.

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