Motivational Quotes

Truth

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

2.

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

Norris, Frank

3.

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

Mann, Horace

4.

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.

5.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

6.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

Pancoast, Mal

7.

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

Seabury, David

8.

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

9.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

10.

Just because you can laugh doesn't mean you can't tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.

11.

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

Edith Sitwell

12.

What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

14.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

15.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

16.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

17.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

18.

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

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

21.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

22.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

23.

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

Walters, Hellmut

24.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

25.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

26.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

27.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

28.

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

29.

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

Blake, William

30.

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Wilder, Billy

31.

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Dickinson, Emily

32.

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

Truman, Harry S

33.

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

34.

We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct -- unity of purpose.

Malcolm X

35.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

36.

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

Mamet, David

37.

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

38.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

39.

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

Butler, Samuel

40.

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

Kahlil Gibran

41.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Galileo Galilei

42.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

43.

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

Darrow, Clarence

44.

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

45.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

46.

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

48.

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

49.

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

Rosten, Leo

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas