Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Birmingham, Wayne

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

3.

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

4.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

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

Churchill, Winston

6.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

7.

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

8.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

9.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

10.

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

Herbert Agar

11.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

12.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

13.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

14.

The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin -- and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.

Havel, Vaclav

15.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

16.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

17.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

18.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

19.

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

Mamet, David

20.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

21.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

22.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

23.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

24.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

25.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

26.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

27.

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.

28.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

29.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

30.

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

Barnes, Leonard

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

33.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Balfour, Arthur James

34.

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

Berenson, Bernard

35.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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)

37.

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

Aristotle

38.

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

Richards, R. Scott

39.

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

Strachey, Lionel

40.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

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

Hare, J. C.

43.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

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

45.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Clarence Darrow

47.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

49.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

50.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert