Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

2.

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

3.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hesse, Hermann

4.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Pindar

5.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

6.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

7.

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

Birmingham, Wayne

8.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

9.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth,and it goes away. Puzzling.

Pirsig, Robert M.

10.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

13.

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.

14.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

15.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

16.

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

Strachey, Lionel

17.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Darrow, Clarence

18.

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

19.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

Against my soul's pure truth why labour you to make it wander in an unknown field?

William Shakespeare

21.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Hare, J. C.

22.

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

Truman, Harry S

23.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

24.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

25.

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

26.

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

Luther, Martin

27.

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

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Bismarck, Otto Von

30.

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

Emre, Yumus

31.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

32.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

33.

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

34.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Mann, Horace

35.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

36.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

Middleton, Owen C.

38.

Truth and virtue conquer.

Motto

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

42.

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

Fuller, Max

43.

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

Darrow, Clarence

44.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

45.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

46.

The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.

Jefferson, Thomas

47.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

48.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

49.

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

50.

It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.

Huxley, Thomas H.