Motivational Quotes

Truth

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

- Halifax, Edward F.

Best Quotes about Truth

Love truth, and pardon error.

Voltaire

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

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

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

William Shakespeare

The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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

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

Barnes, Leonard

Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.

Hamilton, Sir William

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Kahlil Gibran

11.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Carrel, Alexis

12.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

13.

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

14.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Tom Stoppard

15.

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

Seabury, David

16.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Strachey, Lionel

19.

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

Wilder, Billy

20.

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

Churchill, Winston

21.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

Baldwin, James

22.

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

Cronkite, Walter

23.

We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

24.

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

Truman, Harry S

25.

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

26.

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

Russell, Utterly

27.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

28.

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Lynes, Russell

29.

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

Farnham, Eliza

30.

It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.

Confucius

31.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Goldwyn, Samuel

33.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

34.

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

Darrow, Clarence

35.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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

37.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

38.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

39.

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

Augustine, St.

40.

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Scott Westerfeld

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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.

44.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

45.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

Pilgrim, Peace

46.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

47.

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

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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

Bradshaw, John

49.

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

Richards, R. Scott

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

Hesiod