Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

2.

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

Granville, Joseph E.

3.

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

Scott Westerfeld

4.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

5.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

6.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

8.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

9.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

10.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

11.

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

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

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

16.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

17.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

18.

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

19.

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

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

20.

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

21.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

22.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Davies, Robertson

24.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

25.

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

26.

Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

27.

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

Wilder, Billy

28.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

29.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

30.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

31.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

32.

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

Twain, Mark

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Gide, Andre

36.

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

37.

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

Malcolm X

38.

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

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.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

41.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

42.

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

43.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

Rosten, Leo

45.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

46.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

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