Motivational Quotes

Truth

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

- Deupree, Richard

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Epictetus

2.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

3.

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

Tomlin, Lily

4.

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.

5.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

Adler, Alfred

8.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

9.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

Gide, Andre

11.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

12.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain

13.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

14.

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

Mann, Horace

15.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

16.

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

Luther, Martin

17.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Emre, Yumus

21.

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

22.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

23.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Lee, Bruce

25.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Nin, Anais

26.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

27.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

28.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

Jefferson, Thomas

29.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

32.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

33.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

34.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

35.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

36.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

38.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

39.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

40.

Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie.

Kathryn L. Nelson

41.

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

42.

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

43.

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

Howard, Vernon

44.

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

Hesiod

45.

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

Renard, Jules

46.

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

Bach, Richard

47.

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

48.

The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

49.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

50.

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.