Motivational Quotes

Truth

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

- Diderot, Denis

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

3.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

4.

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

Augustine, St.

5.

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

6.

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

Luther, Martin

7.

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

Bach, Richard

8.

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

Butler, Samuel

9.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

11.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

12.

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

13.

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

Mamet, David

14.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

15.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

16.

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.

17.

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

Hesiod

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

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

Camus, Albert

20.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

22.

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

Clarence Darrow

23.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

24.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

25.

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.

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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

27.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

30.

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

Whately, Richard

31.

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

Darrow, Clarence

32.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

33.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

34.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Walters, Hellmut

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

42.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Norris, Frank

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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.