Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

2.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

3.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

4.

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

5.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

6.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

7.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

8.

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

William Shakespeare

9.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Berlin, Irving

11.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

12.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

13.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

14.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

15.

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

16.

The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it's faithful observance, constitutes true education.

Smith, Joseph F.

17.

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

18.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

20.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

22.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

23.

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)

24.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

25.

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

Tom Bissell

26.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

28.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

29.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

31.

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

32.

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

Rosten, Leo

33.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

35.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

36.

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

Rostand, Jean

37.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

38.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

Berenson, Bernard

41.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

42.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

44.

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.

45.

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

Mamet, David

46.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

47.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently