Motivational Quotes

Truth

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Walters, Hellmut

2.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

3.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

4.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

5.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

7.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

8.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

9.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

11.

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

Strachey, Lionel

12.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

13.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Low, Albert

14.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

15.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

17.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

18.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

19.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

20.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

21.

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

Hare, J. C.

22.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

23.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

24.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

25.

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

Luther, Martin

26.

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

27.

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

Mark Twain

28.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

29.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

30.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

31.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

32.

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

33.

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

34.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

35.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

37.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

38.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Truman, Harry S

40.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

41.

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

42.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

43.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

44.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

45.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

46.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

47.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

48.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

49.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

50.

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