Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Twain, Mark

2.

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

Blake, William

3.

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

Edith Sitwell

4.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

5.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

6.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

7.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

8.

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks.

Real Live Preacher

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Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

Davies, Robertson

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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

12.

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

Bradley, Francis H.

13.

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

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Rosten, Leo

16.

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

Adler, Alfred

17.

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

18.

The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

19.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

20.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

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

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

Gide, Andre

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

26.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Walters, Hellmut

28.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

31.

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

Epictetus

32.

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

33.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

34.

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest