Motivational Quotes

Truth

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

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

Berenson, Bernard

2.

Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.

Hill, Napoleon

3.

Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

4.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gwyn, Doug

5.

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

Hamilton, Sir William

6.

I am always going to be true to myself.

Diana, Princess of Wales

7.

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

8.

Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

9.

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

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

Baldwin, James

12.

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

Russell, Utterly

13.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

14.

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

Cronkite, Walter

15.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

Boerhaave, Herman

16.

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

Mann, Horace

17.

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

Lewis, C. S.

18.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Wright, Orville

20.

Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.

Middleton, Owen C.

21.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Einstein, Albert

22.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

23.

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

Camus, Albert

24.

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

25.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Dickens, Charles

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

27.

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

Blake, William

28.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Howard, Vernon

29.

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

Gordimer, Nadine

30.

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

Bible

31.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.

David Shore

32.

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)

33.

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

34.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Benjamin, Walter

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

37.

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

38.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

39.

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Nunn, Gregory

40.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

41.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

Sabbah

42.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse)

43.

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

Lennon, John

44.

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.

45.

I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

46.

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

47.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Rosten, Leo

48.

Truth and virtue conquer.

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