Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Goldwyn, Samuel

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Pindar

2.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

3.

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

Malcolm X

4.

Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.

Lowell, James Russell

5.

Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Frost, Robert

6.

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

7.

There is no god higher than truth.

Gandhi, Mahatma

8.

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

Truman, Harry S

9.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

10.

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

Mann, Horace

11.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

12.

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

Kahlil Gibran

13.

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

Pancoast, Mal

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

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

Lennon, John

16.

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

Pirsig, Robert M.

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

19.

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

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.

Whately, Richard

22.

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

Cronkite, Walter

23.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

24.

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

Quesnel, Pasquier

25.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Herbert Agar

26.

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.

27.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

28.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

30.

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

Lewis, C. S.

31.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

33.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

34.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

Bacon, Francis

35.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

36.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sontag, Susan

37.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

38.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

39.

Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.

Fuller, Max

40.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

41.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Prentice, George D.

42.

The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

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

44.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

45.

Truth fears nothing but concealment.

Proverb

46.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

47.

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

Saroyan, William

48.

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

Barnes, Leonard

49.

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

Blake, William

50.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William