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.

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Fuller, Thomas

2.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Twain, Mark

4.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

5.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Anderson, Sherwood

6.

While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

7.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

8.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

9.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

10.

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

11.

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

Seabury, David

12.

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

Aristotle

13.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

14.

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

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

15.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

16.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

17.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

18.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

19.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

20.

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

Farnham, Eliza

21.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

22.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

23.

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

24.

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

Voltaire

25.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

26.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

27.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

28.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

29.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

30.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

31.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

32.

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

33.

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

Baldwin, James

34.

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

Lee, Bruce

35.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

36.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

38.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

39.

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

40.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

41.

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

Epictetus

42.

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

43.

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

44.

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

Blake, William

45.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

46.

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

Howard, Vernon

47.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

48.

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

49.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

50.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William