Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

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Best Quotes about Truth

1.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

2.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

3.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

5.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

6.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

7.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

9.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

10.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

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

Epictetus

13.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

14.

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

15.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

16.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

18.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

19.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

20.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

21.

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

22.

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

West, Jessamyn

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Blake, William

26.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

30.

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

Mark Twain

31.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

33.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

34.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

35.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

36.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

37.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

38.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

Gide, Andre

41.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

42.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

43.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

44.

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

Bach, Richard

45.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

46.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

48.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce

49.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.