Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Clarence Darrow

Best Quotes about Truth

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hesiod

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

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

Blake, William

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

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

10.

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

12.

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

13.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

16.

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.

17.

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

Smith, Joseph F.

18.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

20.

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

Epictetus

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

25.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

26.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

27.

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

28.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

29.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

30.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

31.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

33.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

34.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

35.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

36.

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

Luther, Martin

37.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

38.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

41.

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

Clarence Darrow

42.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

44.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Hare, J. C.

49.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

50.

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

Camus, Albert