Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Hill, Napoleon

2.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

3.

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

4.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

5.

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

6.

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

Blake, William

7.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

8.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

9.

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

Berenson, Bernard

10.

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

Pascal, Blaise

11.

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

12.

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

Truman, Harry S

13.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

16.

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

Kersha, Al

17.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

18.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

19.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

20.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

21.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

22.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

23.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Galileo Galilei

26.

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

27.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

28.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

29.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

30.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

31.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

32.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

33.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

36.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

37.

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

Kahlil Gibran

38.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

39.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

40.

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

Norris, Frank

41.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

42.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

43.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

44.

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

Lewis, C. S.

45.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

46.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

47.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

48.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

49.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

50.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy