Motivational Quotes

Truth

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Rostand, Jean

2.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

3.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

5.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

6.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

7.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

8.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

9.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

11.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

Goldwyn, Samuel

13.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

15.

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

Mark Twain

16.

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

17.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

18.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

19.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

20.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

21.

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

Diderot, Denis

22.

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

23.

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

Darrow, Clarence

24.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

27.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

28.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

31.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

32.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

33.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

34.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

35.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

36.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

37.

With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

38.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

39.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

40.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

41.

Say not,'I have found the truth,'but rather,'I have found a truth.'

Kahlil Gibran

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Herbert Agar

46.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

47.

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

48.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

49.

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

Scott Westerfeld

50.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.