Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Scott Westerfeld

Best Quotes about Truth

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

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.

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

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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

Blake, William

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

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

Blake, William

10.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

13.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

14.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

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)

16.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

17.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

18.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

19.

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

20.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

23.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

24.

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

Adler, Alfred

25.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

26.

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

27.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

28.

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

29.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

32.

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

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It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

34.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

35.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

36.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

37.

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

38.

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

Richards, R. Scott

39.

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

40.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

41.

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

Barnes, Leonard

42.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.