Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth will come to light ... at the length, the truth will out.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

West, Jessamyn

2.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

3.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

4.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

6.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

8.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

9.

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

Mark Twain

10.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

11.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

13.

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

14.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

15.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

16.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

18.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

19.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

21.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

22.

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

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

25.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

26.

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

Strachey, Lionel

27.

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

Aristotle

28.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

30.

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

Truman, Harry S

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

34.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

35.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

36.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

37.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

38.

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

39.

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

Scott Westerfeld

40.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

42.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

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

44.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

45.

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

46.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

47.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.