Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Hare, J. C.

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Herbert, Frank

2.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

3.

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

Herbert Agar

4.

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

5.

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

Hemingway, Ernest

6.

People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Springsteen, Bruce

7.

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.

Mamet, David

8.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Truman, Harry S

9.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.

Abraham Lincoln

10.

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

11.

But wonder on, till truth makes all things plain.

William Shakespeare

12.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

Aristotle

13.

Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

14.

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

Emre, Yumus

15.

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Truth is exact correspondence with reality.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Blake, William

19.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Frank Lloyd Wright

20.

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

Pindar

21.

What is, is; and what ain't, ain't

Granville, Joseph E.

22.

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

Augustine, St.

23.

Telling someone the truth is a loving act.

Pancoast, Mal

24.

Too much truth is uncouth.

Adams, Franklin P.

25.

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

26.

Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.

Voltaire

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Thatcher, Margaret

31.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.

Truth is its own reward.

Plato

33.

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

Luther, Martin

34.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Bismarck, Otto Von

35.

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

Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

37.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

38.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

Mill, John Stuart

40.

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

Camus, Albert

41.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

42.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

43.

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