Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

2.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

3.

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.

4.

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

Edith Sitwell

5.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

6.

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

7.

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

Scott Westerfeld

8.

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

9.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

10.

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

Einstein, Albert

11.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

12.

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

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.

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

Mann, Horace

15.

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

16.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

17.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

22.

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

23.

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

24.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

25.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

26.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

27.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

29.

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

Penn, William

30.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

31.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

33.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

34.

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

35.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

36.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

37.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

38.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

39.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

40.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

41.

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

42.

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

Kahlil Gibran

43.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

44.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.