Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Bismarck, Otto Von

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

2.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

3.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

5.

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

Rostand, Jean

6.

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

Walters, Hellmut

7.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

9.

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

Herbert, Frank

10.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Low, Albert

12.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

14.

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

Clarence Darrow

15.

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

Einstein, Albert

16.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

17.

Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

18.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

19.

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

20.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

22.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

23.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

24.

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

Herbert Agar

25.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

26.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

27.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

28.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

29.

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

Tom Bissell

30.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

31.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

32.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

33.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

34.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

35.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

36.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

40.

Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

41.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

42.

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

43.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

44.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

45.

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

Darrow, Clarence

46.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

47.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

48.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

49.

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

Augustine, St.

50.

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