Motivational Quotes

Truth

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

- Durrell, Lawrence

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Truman, Harry S

2.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

3.

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

Dickinson, Emily

4.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

5.

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.

6.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

7.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

Shaw, George Bernard

8.

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

Cronkite, Walter

9.

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

10.

Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.

Richards, R. Scott

11.

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.

12.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

13.

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

Farnham, Eliza

14.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Strachey, Lionel

16.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

17.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Russell, Utterly

18.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

21.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

22.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

24.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

25.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

26.

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

Galileo Galilei

27.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

Truth does not contradict truth.

Zweifel, Elizer Zvi

29.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

30.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

31.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

33.

Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

Luther, Martin

34.

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

35.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

36.

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

37.

The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.

Quesnel, Pasquier

38.

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

Luther, Martin

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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.

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

Blake, William

43.

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

44.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

46.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

47.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.