Motivational Quotes

Truth

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

2.

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

3.

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

Scott Westerfeld

4.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

5.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

6.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

7.

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

Lewis, C. S.

8.

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

Sontag, Susan

9.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

12.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

13.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

14.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

15.

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

Merzel, David

16.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

17.

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

Low, Albert

18.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

20.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

21.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

22.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

23.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

24.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

25.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

26.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

29.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

30.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

31.

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

32.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

33.

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

Farnham, Eliza

34.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

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