Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

2.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Herbert, Frank

4.

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

Bible

5.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

6.

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

Joubert, Joseph

7.

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

Hill, Napoleon

8.

All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.

Hill, Napoleon

9.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

10.

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

11.

Truth is always the strongest argument.

Sophocles

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

15.

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

16.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

17.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

18.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

19.

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

20.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.

Cronkite, Walter

22.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

23.

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

Carrel, Alexis

24.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

25.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

26.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Twain, Mark

27.

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

Hare, J. C.

28.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Aristotle

29.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.

Arendt, Hannah

32.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

33.

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

Camus, Albert

34.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.

Goldwyn, Samuel

35.

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

Hall, Calvin S.

36.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Mann, Horace

38.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

39.

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

40.

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

Pindar

41.

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

42.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

43.

While you live tell truth and shame the devil.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Mamet, David

45.

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

46.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

47.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

48.

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

Lewis, C. S.

49.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.