Motivational Quotes

Truth

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

- Ballou, Hosea

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

2.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

3.

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

4.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

6.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

7.

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.

8.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

9.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

10.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

11.

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

Mamet, David

12.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

13.

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

Einstein, Albert

14.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

15.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

16.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

17.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

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

19.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

20.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

21.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

22.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

23.

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

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.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

27.

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

Berlin, Irving

28.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Brandes, George

30.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

31.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

32.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

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

Augustine, St.

34.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

36.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

37.

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

Rosten, Leo

38.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

39.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

41.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

Clarence Darrow

42.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

43.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

44.

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.

45.

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

46.

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

Confucius

47.

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

Whately, Richard

48.

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