Motivational Quotes

Truth

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

- Zola, Emile

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

2.

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

3.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

4.

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

Berenson, Bernard

5.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

6.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

7.

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.

8.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

9.

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

10.

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

Berlin, Irving

11.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

12.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

13.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

14.

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

15.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

16.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

17.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

18.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

19.

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

William Shakespeare

20.

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

21.

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

22.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

23.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

24.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

25.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

26.

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

Aristotle

27.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

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

Scott Westerfeld

31.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

32.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

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

Mann, Horace

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

38.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

39.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

40.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

41.

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

Valery, Paul

42.

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

Penn, William

43.

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.