Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Adler, Alfred

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

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

3.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

4.

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

Confucius

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

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

William Shakespeare

7.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

8.

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

Rostand, Jean

9.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

10.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

Herbert, Frank

12.

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

Tom Bissell

13.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

14.

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

15.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

16.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

17.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

18.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

19.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

20.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

21.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

23.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

24.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

25.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

26.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

27.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

28.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

29.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

30.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

31.

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

32.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

33.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

34.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

35.

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

Augustine, St.

36.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.