Motivational Quotes

Truth

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

- Sabbah

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

2.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

3.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

4.

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

Blake, William

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.

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

7.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

8.

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.

9.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

11.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

13.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

Epictetus

15.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

16.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

17.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

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

Gide, Andre

20.

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

Rosten, Leo

21.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

24.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

25.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

26.

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

27.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

28.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

29.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

30.

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

Davies, Robertson

31.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

32.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

33.

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

Pindar

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

Blake, William

37.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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

39.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

40.

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

Mamet, David

41.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

42.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

43.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

44.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

45.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

46.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

47.

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

Voltaire

48.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

49.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.