Motivational Quotes

Truth

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Truth

1.

A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

2.

Tell the truth and then run.

Proverb

3.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Dickinson, Emily

4.

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

Lewis, C. S.

5.

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.

6.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

7.

Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Lenin

9.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

Locke, John

10.

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

11.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

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

Clarence Darrow

14.

Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

15.

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

16.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Byron, Lord

17.

Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

18.

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

Wilder, Billy

19.

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

Voltaire

20.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.

Adler, Alfred

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

It is the truth that irritates a person.

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Epictetus

24.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

25.

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

26.

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

Edith Sitwell

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

29.

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

Strachey, Lionel

30.

Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.

Helvetius, Claude A.

31.

This does not make the authors of those narratives liars; it makes them servants of fallible human memory and perception.

Tom Bissell

32.

What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

33.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Agnes Repplier

34.

To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

Voltaire

35.

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

Seabury, David

36.

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

37.

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

38.

A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.

Proverb, Greek

39.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Truth never hurts the teller.

Browning, Robert

41.

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple

Wilde, Oscar

42.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Rostand, Jean

43.

If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

Rogers, Will

44.

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

Kersha, Al

45.

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

Mann, Horace

46.

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

Churchill, Winston

47.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

Blake, William

48.

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

49.

The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.

Shaftesbury, Lord

50.

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

Berenson, Bernard