Motivational Quotes

Truth

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Mamet, David

2.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

3.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

4.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

5.

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.

6.

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

Fuller, Max

7.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

8.

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

9.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

10.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

11.

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

Blake, William

12.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

13.

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

14.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

15.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

21.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

22.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

23.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

24.

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

Merzel, David

25.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

26.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

27.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

28.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

29.

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

Barnes, Leonard

30.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

31.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

32.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

33.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

34.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

35.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

37.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

38.

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

39.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

40.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

41.

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

42.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

43.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

48.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

49.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

50.

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.