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.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

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

Howard, Vernon

5.

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

Camus, Albert

6.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

Darrow, Clarence

7.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

8.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

9.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

10.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

11.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

12.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

13.

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.

14.

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

15.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

16.

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

Baldwin, James

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

20.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

21.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

22.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

23.

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

24.

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

25.

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

Wilder, Billy

26.

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

Hesiod

27.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

28.

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

Adler, Alfred

29.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

30.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

31.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

32.

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

Stone, W. Clement

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Hare, J. C.

35.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

36.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

37.

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

38.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

39.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

40.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

42.

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)

43.

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

Lee, Bruce

44.

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.

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

47.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

48.

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

Kahlil Gibran

49.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

50.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Rayburn, Sam