Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is reality.

- Richards, Mary Caroline

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

2.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

3.

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

Mamet, David

4.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

5.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

6.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

7.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

8.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

9.

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

10.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

11.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

16.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

17.

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

Low, Albert

18.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

19.

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

Farnham, Eliza

20.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

22.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

23.

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

24.

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

Mark Twain

25.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

26.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

27.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

28.

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

Scott Westerfeld

29.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

30.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

31.

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

Kersha, Al

32.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

33.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

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

35.

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

Rostand, Jean

36.

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

Brandes, George

37.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

38.

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.

39.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

40.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

41.

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

42.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

43.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

44.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

45.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

46.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

47.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

48.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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