Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

2.

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

4.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Truman, Harry S

5.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

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

Bible

7.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

8.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

11.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

13.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

14.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

15.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

16.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

17.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

18.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

19.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

20.

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

Blake, William

21.

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

22.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

23.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

24.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

25.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

26.

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

27.

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

Strachey, Lionel

28.

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

Kahlil Gibran

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

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

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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

33.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

34.

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

36.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

37.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

39.

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

Wilder, Billy

40.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

41.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

42.

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

43.

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

Blake, William

44.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

Luther, Martin

46.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

47.

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

Rogers, Will

48.

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

49.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

50.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Lee, Bruce