Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth never hurts the teller.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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.

3.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

4.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

5.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

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.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

8.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

9.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Strachey, Lionel

13.

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

Davies, Robertson

14.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

17.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

18.

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

19.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

20.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

Rostand, Jean

22.

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

Deupree, Richard

23.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

24.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

25.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

26.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

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

30.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

31.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Butler, Samuel

33.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

34.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

35.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

36.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

37.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

38.

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

39.

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.

40.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

41.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

42.

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

Valery, Paul

43.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

44.

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

45.

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

Tom Bissell

46.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

47.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

48.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.