Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- West, Jessamyn

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

2.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

3.

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

4.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.

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

6.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

7.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

8.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

9.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

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

Blake, William

11.

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

Lennon, John

12.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

13.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

14.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

15.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

16.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

17.

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

18.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

19.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

20.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

21.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

22.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

24.

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

25.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

29.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

30.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

31.

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

William Shakespeare

32.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

33.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

34.

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

35.

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

Barnes, Leonard

36.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

37.

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

Tom Bissell

38.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

39.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

40.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

41.

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

Rostand, Jean

42.

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

Blake, William

43.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

45.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

46.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

47.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

48.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

49.

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.

50.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.