Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Alder, Alfred

2.

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

Clarence Darrow

3.

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.

4.

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

Pancoast, Mal

5.

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

6.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

7.

Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

8.

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

9.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

11.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

12.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

Herbert, Frank

14.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

15.

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

Luther, Martin

16.

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

Lee, Bruce

17.

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

18.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

19.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

20.

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

Hare, J. C.

21.

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

Zola, Emile

22.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

23.

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

William Shakespeare

24.

Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Thatcher, Margaret

25.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

27.

Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.

Malcolm X

28.

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

Wilder, Billy

29.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

32.

The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Epictetus

33.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

34.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Hesiod

35.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

36.

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

37.

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

Norris, Frank

38.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Berenson, Bernard

39.

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

Scott Westerfeld

40.

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

41.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

42.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Huxley, Aldous

43.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Cowper, William

44.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

45.

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.

46.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

47.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Churchill, Winston

48.

No matter what you believe, it doesn't change the facts.

Kersha, Al

49.

The truth simply is that's all. It doesn't need reasons: it doesn't have to be right: it's just the truth. Period.