Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

- Yogananda, Paramahansa

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Scott Westerfeld

2.

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

3.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

4.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

5.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

6.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

7.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

8.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

9.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

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

11.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

12.

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.

13.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Bach, Richard

16.

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

17.

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

Epictetus

18.

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

Strachey, Lionel

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

21.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

22.

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

23.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

24.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

25.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

26.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

27.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

28.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

31.

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

Penn, William

32.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

33.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

34.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

35.

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

36.

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

Hesse, Hermann

37.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

38.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

39.

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

40.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

41.

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

42.

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

Mamet, David

43.

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

Stone, W. Clement

44.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

46.

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.

47.

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

Brandes, George

48.

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

Blake, William

49.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

50.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

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