Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

2.

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

Fuller, Max

3.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

4.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

5.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

6.

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

Hill, Napoleon

7.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

8.

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

9.

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

10.

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

Lee, Bruce

11.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

12.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

13.

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.

14.

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

Truman, Harry S

15.

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

Clarence Darrow

16.

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

Halifax, Edward F.

17.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.

Penn, William

18.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

19.

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

20.

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

Gide, Andre

21.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

22.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

23.

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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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

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.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

Farnham, Eliza

28.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

29.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Wilder, Billy

31.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

32.

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

33.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

34.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Durrell, Lawrence

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

37.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

38.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

39.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

40.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

41.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

42.

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

43.

The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]

Bible

44.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

45.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

46.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

47.

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