Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Scott Westerfeld

2.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier

3.

Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

Pascal, Blaise

4.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Matthew Arnold

5.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

6.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Ballou, Hosea

7.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

8.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

9.

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

10.

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

Blake, William

11.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

12.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

13.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

14.

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

Hesiod

15.

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

16.

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

Jefferson, Thomas

17.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Berenson, Bernard

20.

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

Zola, Emile

21.

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

22.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Luther, Martin

24.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Richards, R. Scott

26.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

Baldwin, James

27.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

West, Jessamyn

31.

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

Cronkite, Walter

32.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

33.

Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.

Stone, W. Clement

36.

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

37.

Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.

Bradley, Francis H.

38.

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

39.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Watts, Alan W.

41.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

42.

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

43.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

44.

But'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.

William Shakespeare

45.

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.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

46.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Diderot, Denis

47.

If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?

Tomlin, Lily

48.

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