Motivational Quotes

Truth

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

Bach, Richard

2.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

3.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

4.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

5.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

6.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

7.

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

8.

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

Darrow, Clarence

9.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

11.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

12.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

14.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

16.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

17.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

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

Galileo Galilei

19.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

20.

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

Hare, J. C.

21.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

22.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

23.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

24.

The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.

Hsueh-Dou

25.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

26.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

27.

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

28.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

34.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

35.

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

Adler, Alfred

36.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

37.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

39.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

40.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

41.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

42.

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

Bible

43.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

44.

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

45.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

46.

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

Stone, W. Clement

47.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

48.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.