Motivational Quotes

Truth

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Walters, Hellmut

2.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

3.

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

William Shakespeare

4.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

5.

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

6.

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

Davies, Robertson

7.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

8.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

9.

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

11.

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

12.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

13.

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

14.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

15.

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

16.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

17.

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

Seabury, David

18.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

19.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

20.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

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.

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

25.

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.

26.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

30.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

31.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

34.

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

Clarence Darrow

35.

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

Farnham, Eliza

36.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

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

39.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

40.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

41.

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

42.

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