Motivational Quotes

Truth

I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Epictetus

2.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

3.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

Barnes, Leonard

4.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

5.

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

6.

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

Cronkite, Walter

7.

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, What is truth?

Whately, Richard

8.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

9.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Jerrold, Douglas William

10.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Borne, Ludwig

11.

Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

13.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

14.

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

15.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

16.

They breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.

William Shakespeare

17.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Blake, William

18.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

21.

True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.

Richter, Jean Paul

22.

You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.

Guest, Edgar A.

23.

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Bible

24.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

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

27.

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

Dickinson, Emily

28.

When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

Blake, William

29.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

30.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

31.

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

32.

The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.

Seabury, David

33.

Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.

Howard, Vernon

34.

Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.

Proverb, Danish

35.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

36.

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

Hesiod

37.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

38.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

39.

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Gide, Andre

40.

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

41.

The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.

42.

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

Balfour, Arthur James

43.

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

Diderot, Denis

44.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

45.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

46.

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

Kersha, Al

47.

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

48.

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

49.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Lennon, John

50.

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

Joubert, Joseph