Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

2.

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

Blake, William

3.

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

Norris, Frank

4.

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

Clarence Darrow

5.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

6.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

7.

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

Twain, Mark

8.

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

9.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

10.

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

Baldwin, James

11.

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.

12.

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

Valery, Paul

13.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

14.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

15.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

16.

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

17.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

18.

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

Tomlin, Lily

19.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

20.

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.

21.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.

22.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

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.

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

Rosten, Leo

26.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

27.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

28.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

29.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

30.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

31.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

32.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

35.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

36.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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

Kahlil Gibran

38.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Strachey, Lionel

40.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

42.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

43.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

44.

Truth is reality.

Richards, Mary Caroline

45.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

46.

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)

47.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

48.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

49.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

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

Davies, Robertson